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Subject: Re: Why dont engines support the egtb format that Chessmaster uses?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:55:23 04/02/04

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On April 02, 2004 at 16:46:53, Jonas Bylund wrote:

>>Even if there were a hundred free Winboard engines stronger than The King,
>>people would still buy Chessmaster because of the incredible value of the entire
>>software package.
>>
>>Additionally, people typically don't find out about the existence of free
>>engines without first delving into computer chess via a commercial package. I
>>don't know how many people download Crafty each year, but I would suspect that
>>each one of them has bought a commercial program first.
>>
>>jm
>
>That's actually a bit creepy, i started getting intrested in comp chess when i
>first got Chessmater 5500 and the next step for me was the to run Crafty under
>Winboard. I got hooked on comp chess through CM5500 and then discovered that
>there was a lot of free engines out there :)
>
>Jonas

It's not creepy; it's the norm (unless you feel creeped out by being normal).
;-)

jm



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