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Subject: Re: Question to Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 16:33:15 09/08/05

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On September 08, 2005 at 08:56:59, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>You cannot compare CM with CB. CB is the instrument for the chessplayers. CM on
>the American market is for those who want to play chess for a while. I have some
>versions of CM myself but due to time considerations I must make the decision
>about what should I use on a daily base. You could also bring NIC into the
>debate. All very nice, even led by a super GM (Jan Timman!), but you have the
>same difficulty, you must transform the files. It's a pity. In Wijk I bought the
>book with cdrom about all the Hoogoven tourneys and know what I haven't played
>through the compilation because of time reasons. Of course, if I were born in
>Holland I would certainly prefer NIC just for national warmth but I doubt it
>because I'm cosmopolit and want to have the best. This is why I didn't have the
>time for Chess Assistant although I always favor Russians if it comes to chess!
>On the other hand I have INFORMATOR because it's simply state of the art.
>
>I'm not content with ChessBase. They have no good user handling when it comes to
>bugs. But you know what? Often I learned much later after the event that certain
>bugs were features of copyprotection, if you know what I mean. In special if it
>comes to big databases.
>
>Here is my peace proposal for all Zappa supporters:
>
>Stay in the scene, do your job as best as you can - these ChessBase people are
>all approaching 60 and I guess they would rather retire than being in a
>bogie-wheel. Watch your cell-phone carefully and soon you will be in paradise.
>Then you can sell to the amateurs and then every human being on this Earth will
>play chess with at least 10 computers - just for testing purposes. Please put
>some flowers on my grave then!
>
>Thanks, and all the best to you,
>Rolf

I will go first i think so i like red roses. :)

Grave side prayer,

Gerold.



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