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Subject: Re: Chessmaster

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 05:34:11 09/30/00

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On September 29, 2000 at 14:40:18, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 29, 2000 at 12:51:19, dennis burke wrote:
>
>>Mattel is selling The Learning Company. Mindscape is part of this sale. I do't
>>believe we will see another release from Chessmaster for a long time. Any
>>thoughts?
>
>Your are incorrect on all counts.
>
>Mattel has already sold The Learning Company to Gores Technology Group, which is
>(in)famous for turning around troubled tech companies (such as The Learning
>Company).
>
>Mindscape, as a company, no longer exists; it is now just a brand name that The
>Learning Company uses, along with Red Orb, SSI, Broderbund, PF Magic and others
>(which all USED to be companies, but were bought/absorbed by The Learning
>Company).
>
>However, the Chessmaster development team is still on schedule to ship their
>product in a few weeks, meaning that it will arrive in the stores in early
>November. Gores has no reason not to ship a product that has already been in
>Beta for a month.

So the Beta testers should get their copy around this time?  Anyway, good luck
with the development, and its nice to see Chessmaster is putting some SERIOUS
chess features in.


JW

>
>jm



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