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Subject: Re: READ THIS!! If you want your software to display variation trees!

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 07:45:34 09/26/98

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>You are probably aleardy aware of this, but the latest Chessbase package
>displays chess trees compiled from a games database, suitable for text in a
>chess book. Good luck if you proceed - I hope you are still in time. I don't
>think this sort of patent is healthy for computer chess at all.
>
>Best wishes,
>Roberto

My impression was that Chessbase produced variation trees as text -
that is to say, like a page in ECO/MCO. I suspect that this patent won't
claim that, since everything I've seen has been a graphical tree display.

Does Chessbase display graphical trees? That is, like one of the below?

\ /
 O   O
  \ /
   o

or

--------------------------
       |
       --------------
             |
             ----------

Richard



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