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Subject: Re: is chessmaster a french program?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:02:14 07/28/02

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On July 28, 2002 at 14:17:00, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 28, 2002 at 10:03:34, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>is chessmaster now a french program? used to be american then british then
>>american again and now it has returned to europe, the spiritual home of
>>computerchess.
>>
>>rajen
>
>In the sense that it is now owned by a French company, Ubi Soft, yes. However,
>the engine is Dutch, as it is written by Johan de Koning. The GUI itself is
>written in America (California).
>
>jm

I forgot to mention that Quality Assurance testing (i.e. testing for bugs) was
done in Romania and Germany, and that Compatibility Testing (i.e. testing with
lots of different hardware configurations) was done in Canada.

So, people from six different countries were involved in the development of
Chessmaster 9000.

jm



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