Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:47:03 10/04/00
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On October 03, 2000 at 15:05:40, Fernando Villegas wrote: A programmer has to release his program in the 2000 year or you can never tell a good story when you get old. that the mathematical millennium starts at the year 2001 or so is not relevant as the fact that this year carries a 2 with THREE zero's is very convincing for anyone who wants to say a word when he gets old about what happened in the new millennium: "i released a cool version of my program in the holy 2000 year!" >In a couple of months or sooner we will see coming into us the following bunch >of programs asking for our money and our time: >a) Rebel 11 package, weith two or three programs. Three if that misterious >Tiger gambit comes... >b) Schredder 5, maybe stand-alone or in a bundle with who-knows-what >c) CM 8000 with its new engine. Who can lose it? >d) Perhaps Mchess 9. Just a rumour, but... >d) The new Hiarcs. This "new Hiarcs" things is so old that maybe it will become >truth. >e) Fritz 7. You can expect germanic commercial precision in the date of >delivery. No jokes with them, get the money right now. > >To that you can add the programs that very recently stroke the field or are >coming in matter of days: >a) Chess Assistant. >b) Gandalf >c) Chess base >d) A variety of modules of both of them > >Of course there are, according to my sources, some possible surprises on the >way: >a) Perhaps a commercial version of Peter Mckenzie program? >b) Perhaps a new lucky strike buy the authors of Virtual Chess, the excellent >french program? >c) Perhaps a new stand alone version of WChess by Kittinger? >d) Perhaps a fixed and workable version of Power Chess? > >Naturally you must add: >a) A new crop of CD's with a variety of engines >b) More CD's with just another crop of magazines articles >c) Even more CD's with a new stock of opennings > >Well, Am I missing something? What a heck are we going to do? Maybe I should >sell my collection of old cars to get the money. And what I am going to do with >my "old" programs? Some are so recently installed that I have not yet played >more than one or two games with them. And I have not more room to stock the >increasing pile of old programs that becomes obsolete the same day I put my >hands on them. In fact I have realized that the more programs I have, the less I >play. Kind of subtitution of chess playing mania for collection mania of chess >stuff? >In fact, according to my calculations, each of us should get around 500 bucks if >you still pretend to be considered a respectable member of this group. 500 is >the minimum, of course. >Fernando
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