Author: stuart taylor
Date: 06:14:33 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 05:24:22, Bert Seifriz wrote: >It is a common mistake to think Chessbase or any other company has a brand new >upgrade and five minutes later this upgrade is on a new CD. This is absolutely >impossible in many respects. How could an upgrade be on a CD the next day when >it has just been on the internet for 5 minutes for download - fresh from the >oven, so to speak? Think about the time you need to manufacture that! > >But even more important: ChessBase pressed maybe 5000 or 10 000 CDs last time. >Nobody throws 10 000 CDs into a waste paper basket just to press a new upgrade. >All these 10 000 CDs will be sold. Nobody knows how long this will take. But >only AFTER the whole edition is sold out they will press a new edition. This is >the way it is done and this is sensible. All firms do this! > >So you can in fact buy any time and upgrade thru the internet. A program like >FRITZ is NEVER finished! The final version of FRITZ 6 will be the one after >FRITZ 7 will have been released. >Nice Sunday, Bert I live in Israel and I hope to buy Fritz6 in about 2-3 months time when I might be in England.It's easier than having it mailed, and there is no outlet here that I know about. Will it still be on internet after then? But it's not that easy. I bought hiarcs 7 in England, only to hear a few days later when back home, that 7.32 had suddenly come out. There was no internet pity for me then!S.T.
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