Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 22:02:44 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 11:28:27, frank zimmer wrote: >The answer is quite simple, Master,s and GM,s make up only a small percentage of >the chess playing population, with the majority at expert and under. If you are >selling anything at all, you want to target the largest amount of people that >will buy your product at a competative price and rating stength. Any dedicated >machine with a rating around 2200-2400 is capable of defeating 90% of >chessplayer,s at the Tournament level. So, it would be unproffitable to go >higher just to attract the small number of higher rated player,s. That seems to be the opposite of top of the line chess software. However the cheap ICs that are put in the dedicated units to keep their cost down is a huge factor in all of this. -- Komputer Korner
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