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Subject: Re: Fritz 6a. What is the a for?

Author: m.d.hurd

Date: 03:37:22 01/23/00

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On January 22, 2000 at 09:39:12, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Frederic
>
>> The new engine will be called Fritz 6, only testers refer to
>> it as 6a. For the mass market it is not relevant.
>
>Well how about calling it Fritz 6.1 or Fritz 6.01.  This would have two
>benefits.  Firstly it would reward all those who bought the product early by
>giving them another engine (without having to resort to hex editors).  More
>importantly, it will boost the rating of the new engine!  Since if you call the
>improved engine 'Fritz 6' there will be no differenciation from the old 'Fritz
>6' and results will get mixed up - but then on the other hand maybe you don't
>really believe there is much difference between Fritz 6 and Fritz 6a :-)
>
>Regards
>
>Steve Maughan

A very sensible idea steve, fingers crossed.

Mike Hurd



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