Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 05:48:45 06/18/00
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On June 18, 2000 at 08:12:43, James wrote: >Since Chessmaster <Mindscape>, is a now a subsidiary of Mplayer, it would seem >to be inconsistant with the corporate gameplan of Mplayer to "waste" their time >producing a chess program geared to anything other than getting 10 year old kids >to come to Mplayer. Any of the original authors left working on the CM project, >it could be suspected that they are not in concurrance with their new >"directives", nor could they publicise their position. Our "purist" viewpoint >percieves this as a loss to the world of chessprogramming. Since Mattel took over Mindscape, you would expect then to have the backing to make a pretty good program. But I think they would rather design a new ballroom gown for Barbie. I do not think Mplayer has much of a say in things whatsoever.
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