Author: Shep
Date: 05:46:26 08/14/00
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On August 14, 2000 at 08:15:40, walter irvin wrote: >On August 13, 2000 at 13:17:11, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Pichard. >> >>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?124192 >absolutely to give an example .if there was a new chess program that won the >computer world title by 2 full points winning all its games . then it went to >the ssdf and rated at 300 points above #2 .even if it had no interface very few >features , just a black and white screen reading e2-e4 e7-e5 ect . the fact >that it is super strong would make it a top seller ,even if the price was $300 >.people want the best strongest monster they can get their hands on . ... even if it wasn't even written entirely in English, I should add. :) I remember the time when I started beta-testing the 11.x series of Chess Tiger; it was exactly as you stated, simple DOS text output (like DOS Crafty), and above all that, most of the text was French, the pieces had French abbreviations (R = 'roi' for King which I always confused with "R"ook etc.). Still I couldn't take my hands off it since it definitely was the strongest program at that time. If Hsu ever brings out "DB on a chip", I'd even learn Chinese to operate it if necessary. :)))))) --- Shep
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