Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 05:12:44 09/23/99
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On September 23, 1999 at 07:55:36, Steve Maughan wrote: >There _may_ be legal reasons why we don't see a specialist version of King 3.0. >I think Johan de Konig worked full time for TASC and I beleive (but I'm not 100% >sure) that the engine may belong to TASC. > >A solution that would make sense to me would be for Mindscape to license The >King (2.61 or 3.0) engine to either ChessBase or Millennium Chess System, to be >sold as a specialist engine. This would not detract at all from the sales of >ChessMaster as it would be a completely different target audience. In my view >this is just extra money for Mindscape. > >Steve Maughan I do not think this would be a good idea. This would serve no other purpose than to further the Chessbase stronghold in specialist computer chess. If this happened, I would suggest you would buy the engine and not chessmaster, less chessmaster sales, lose moneyt for selling the engine cheaper than the program
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