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Subject: Re: Chessmaster

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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