Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:11:33 03/22/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 14:10:53, Peter Berger wrote:
>On March 22, 2001 at 14:01:15, Amicitia Stone wrote:
>
>>On March 22, 2001 at 13:25:48, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>On March 22, 2001 at 13:17:11, Christian Koch wrote:
>>>
>>>>Tiger 14 and GT 2 will released within 2 weeks by Chessbase. I called them today
>>>>and confirmed the rumour that they will release Tiger and GT.
>>>>
>>>>bye,
>>>>Christian
>>>>
>>>will Tiger 14 and GT 2 then be compatible with the other chessbase gui's
>>>and thus be able to run under fritz 6?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>
>>I wish the same thing! I hope they can be played under Fritz interface. Wouldn't
>>that be the ultimate? But of course I am curious as to by Chessbase is releasing
>>it. Looks like Chessbase is the Microsoft of Chess engines :)
>
>Well it indeed is news , that's true .
>
>If it is good one ? Who knows .
>
>The release date is interesting , isn't it ? It's the two weeks again :-) .
>
>I think probably there has been a study by McKinsey or so telling people that
>two weeks is the perfect period of time to keep people interested .
>
>The equivalent for "soon" seems to be "Nobody knows " . I remember similar news
>with time period "soon" for Hiarcs 8 and MChess 9 .
>
>"Two weeks" seems to mean that it definitely will happen at last .
>
>I really hope that Chess Tiger will follow the Hiarcs tradition and wlll
>continue being developped under ChessPartner ( just for sake of competition)
Hiarcs wasn't exactly developed on a competing platform. As I remember, Hiarcs
was first developed and distributed by Uniacke's own company (could be wrong).
After Hiarcs 6 came out as a Chessbase engine it was reported that for whatever
reason Hiarcs 7 would NOT be a CB engine (this I remember clearly), and its
release as a stand-alone seemed to confirm this. Yet, not too long after,
Uniacke clearly had a change of heart on the matter (IMO it was a matter of
developping a good Windows GUI) and Hiarcs 7.32 came out. So my take on it was
that Uniacke wasn't actually trying to come out with a competing version of his
own engine. It just ended up looking like that in the end.
You're right though. The importance of competition cannot be understated. It is
what pushes us hardest to exceed ourselves.
Albert
> but
>Chessbase really seems to follow the Microsoft tradition . The next thing is
>probably a Shredder/Chessbase , brrr .
>
>pete
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