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Subject: Re: strongest program

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 05:12:54 11/20/00

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On November 20, 2000 at 07:07:06, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 20, 2000 at 03:19:03, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>Read again: H+G ALWAYS provided me with the BEST hardware possible
>>on a World Championship investing many german marks because I always
>>got the latest and fastest Bsteh machine. And believe me H+G had to
>>pay big money for that.
>
>they provided it for YOU but they had no interest that
>the schaetzle and bsteh-kit is amongst the top
>of the ssdf-list.
>this would damage the business they had with the high-end machines
>they wanted to sell.
>
>>So what?
>
>the classes should not get out of order.

>why did you leave H+G and came together with TASC running rebel
>on the ARM-chess-machines when you were that much satisfied with
>the H+G politics ?

H+G was a fine company. I went to Tasc with the RISC program because
H+G did not want to invest in new hardware. And as the market for
high-end expensive dedicated chess computers was on its way back they
were right and simply bought the hardware and software one year later
from Tasc.


>as far as i see the chessmachines were as fast as a 486-33
>and the 30 Mhz as fast as the 486-50/66.
>
>>>cause the 1600,- DM or was it 1900,- don't remember anymore ?!
>>>have to be paid for the turbo-kit, and only 498,- for the MM4-machine.
>>>this way the big amount of money was transferred to another company
>>>than H+G.
>
>
>>No.
>
>no ? i don't think schaetzle and bsteh gave the 1600-1900 DM to H+G...
>
>>The market for the turbo-kit was just too small.
>
>thats true.
>
>it was the end of the heavy-money machines.
>pc's came...
>at those times you worked with TASC on chessmachine engines,
>the 286 PC's were on the market.
>
>a 286 with a nice chessmachine, even a 386 with it was quite a nice thing.
>and 486-DX machines were really expensive at those times.
>
>but a chessmachine was really nice. i remember at those times
>my friend and me had up to 10 machines running in our pc's...
>
>>Yes slander.
>
>>Thuringen is no CSS tournament it never was.
>
>right. but css is very engaged in publishing the stuff since
>junior and df participate.

Come on Thorsten, you don't can expect from me to defend CSS, now
do you....?  :-)

Ed



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