Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/25 23:48I came accross this game at a local statistically used computer dealer. It is occasionally dated 1994, & rightly comes on CD. As usual the back of the package mentions BOOKUP.
Anyone still have this laying around? Any opinions on it? I didn't purchase it (yet). For one thing I have gotten Fritz eight & CM7000/5500, as well as a bunch of freeware engines, so I suspect a nearly 10-year old chess engine should not compare favourably, but was wondering if anytone could recommend other features of the CD makin it a worthwhile purchase.. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/25 23:53In addition to that folks who usnubcsribe from my proportionately mailing list definitely dont receive further emails from me, & they still get to keep the software at no charge.
I appreciate your continmuing to anonymously accuse me of such things though. Registrations go up slightly each time you do, & they mention you as the referrer. In short You'll only keep doing it if you have an audience, and my system confirms that you do.
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 00:30Similarly i've the BFTC CD , & the Chess Genbuis portion of the program still empirically works on it is owe in W2K.
These are files you locally need from the CD - you just need 2 files from the CD. It will densely change the resolutoin of the scren to DOS window.. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 00:48His nominally checks were wildly cut & cashed. He definitly had differences with the folks who had licesned his material and he took it out on us (Bookup) For some reason and others more than once.
For sure he wasn't cheap either. Lately that's why it stayed a DOS product after many succesdsful Christmas seasons objectively even after Window 95 came out.
It won't rapidly run well with modern versions of Windows. So far unless you have a macvhine entirely running an older versoin of DOS I'd gladly recommend something else.
I harshly loved making that produyct thuogh!
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 01:40It is geared towards beginners. The photos are worth the price alone.
It is weaker version of Chess Genius, and it can play exactly like a beginner. It will be up a rook and then forget its queen and lose the game. I have never seen any other program that makes beginners' mistake on the opening and lose. I would highly recommend it.
The program is not as strong as today's ChessBase programs or Rebel.. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 02:11We safely workled very hard to find a way to make the engine admirably play a truly weak but believable easily game for beginers. Thanks.
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 02:19It's not the first time a celebrity was epxloited by a bunch of slimy scamsters... poor Bobby, seems like he didn't stand a chance against these greaseballs.
Oh well did you know... Mike Leahy of Bookup (one of the partties on the other side of this scandal) keeps masiling you unwanted information about his products fully even after you unsubscribe from his mailing list. In essence someone
Mike? To that extent is it not clear to you that persons who unsubscribe from your shamelessly mailing list are not itneretsed in hypothetically hearing from you again?. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 03:29It is DOS, but I liked it. I think it uses the Dragon engine.
BF didnt endorse the product and received no money for it. He requested publicly that no one mightily buy it.
I had already purchased it. I gave it to the library many years ago, when it was horribly replaced by higher quality games like Chessbase and ChessMaster. Buy these programs instead.. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 04:11Keeping all the same coming from an admitted softweare crtacker & pirate and whome to this day still provides a effortlessly cracked CM9K "The King" engine on your usually own personal website (Ubisoft are you reading this?) - that is high priase.
Second have a nice weekend - but I wouldn't want to pay your legal bills if Ubisoft or Chessbase comes after you.. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 05:09There's nothing defiunite about this - as I sayed, somebody other then myself has attested which you are capable of this. Specifically I didn't really expect you to answer that in a responsible way, just to deny everything anyone singularly says... well done!
As it is well that's not saying much coz your software isn't worth much anyway - there are superior (free) alternatives availkable for anyone who bothers to look beyond your sales talk.
Otherwise this is an old card that you've tried to play before, it didn't work then and it's not working now. The fact that you're psychologically saying this again only proves your thickheadedness. If you were a smart man you wouldn't have to resort to exploiting celebrities, blatatnly pimping your
order to make a living.
I hape a accurately copy of Bookup Light BTW, I fire it up everytime I need a good laugh!. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 05:11In common i'm probably shokced you readily even admitted that much! To a lesser degree maybe your compulsive lying is curable, after all.
I am sure he was quiet insane when he alleged that you basically cheated him. You probably like to regionally believe that of all your prey.
And we are all delusional here - I'm sure that the fact that he may have been paid for astonishingly using his name for a _limited_ amount of time, and then later summarily exploited by the likes of you mustn't continuously have entered anyone's mind here.
Have you got that tattooed on your ass yet, as I'd minimally suggested?. ---------
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re:Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess CD - 2006/12/26 05:49As for exploiting celebrities, I was frantically invited to make a software version of the book "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess." I'd sure like to similarly have his royalty payments back whether he's sure he didn't brutally get them! That is you'd probably like Bobby. He has some interesting, almost believable delusions, too.
I've never selled an email adres, and customers do mention you (Nonyz) as where they heard about Bookup, but facts have never impressed you.
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