Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 12:02:49 11/13/97
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On November 13, 1997 at 04:42:58, Chris Whittington wrote: > >On November 12, 1997 at 17:55:08, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>As most people know now, Junior will come as Fritz/ChessBase engine! >>I have heard from another programmer who will sell his program >>next year as Fritz engine, too. >>This brings the number of available engines to nearly 10!! >> >>Nothing against ChessBase > >No, of course not, I believe you, Bert :) They only threaten you with >court cases for putting their updates on your web site, and, and, and. > >>, but I would find it >>very boring when the next WCCC shows only Fritz boards >>on all computers and inside work Hiarcs, Junior, M-Chess, >>Nimzo, Genius, CS-Tal, > Hello Bert - you know me well, and you can be sure: This day will never come ! Not as long as I live ! Of course Friedel has a big empire and years of progress, but almost any programmer I know has found out himself that BEEING an engine programmer alone is not the right thing ! They all have to made their own experience with THE GUYS (in the scene, all distributors and ChessBase, Computer-Schach and Spiele etc.). They all have to make their eperience first. Ed knows by now. Mark should know it too. Stefan has made some "experience" by now and will find out himself later with whom to live and with whom to die. Others will make their "experience" later. This is the PROGRESS they live from. That it needs individual time to make experience. But you cannot hide something that is your main lack. One day anybody (e.g. Stefan) find out HOW it works and than it is maybe to late for him, but only maybe. Not only the group of people writing FOR chessBase is growing. YOu can believe me, the army/troops (against the empire) on the other side is growing too. Of course anybody is doing his own stuff, and that weakens us, but WE HAVE ONE ENEMY WHO UNITES US ! From my experience I can only say that the group of enemies against ChessBase empire is growing from day to day and that many of the so known "chessBase" friends are not friends but have to do/be two faced because of business reasons, but have seen through and will change their behaviour in the moment they have found better business. >I can assure you that there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever that >the engine of Chess System Tal would enter into the caverns of >Beelzebub. > Right. We are the Anti-force. Dark Vader will not win. Mr.Black-Excellence will not win. >>Rebel etc. >> >>Am I the only person who has a strange feeling about this >>development? No - as a member of the Anti-ChessBase - army I can tell you : We are prepared. And Paris was ONE STRIKE BACK against the empire ! Ok - they have Junior. As I have seen they have planned junior years before. No problem for me, junior has many competitors, strong programs like Mchess. I don't think Marty will ever sell his engine to chessBase, although they heavily try , or ? also there is Ed. He can stop them too. And Virtual chess. Also too strong for Fritz. And Shredder ? He is not an chessBase engine too. No Bert - we will survive although the others are more succesful. But we know WHY they are succesful. We have to go the straight path, they have short-cuts. One day in your life you have to decide: using Backbones or walking with two-faced grin. We prefer backbones. > >Of course you're not. Its a terrible monopoly situation brought about by >the overcrowded market in chess programs (there are too many), and the >difficulty for individual programmers to market their own programs. > >And for every new engine added to the total number N of engines, the >individual payments to each programmer will fall in direct proportion to >N. > >But here in Oxonia we are fighting hard against the Imperium ....... :) Exactly. In Hamburg they produce FAST-FOOD software, in Oxford they produce Intelligent Software ! Hamburg = Hamburger. Oxford = Artificial Intelligence. The fight is clear. The result is open. > >> Are individual programs not much more colorful? > >The forces of darkness can't make colourful programs :) > Krawumm ! >Chris Whittington > >>Bert
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