Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:17:14 04/15/01
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On April 14, 2001 at 16:18:51, Ovidio Santistevan wrote:
>On April 14, 2001 at 13:14:14, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On April 14, 2001 at 10:44:39, Ovidio Santistevan wrote:
>>
>>>I don´t know if somebody talked about this before, but, in my opinion, Tiger
>>>should have kept his relationship with Rebel, and not initiate a new one with
>>>Chessbase.
>>
>>
>>
>>You have been badly informed.
>
>No. I said: "...in my opinion,..." I just wanted to say that I didn´t like
>that deal.
I am not arguing that you are giving your opinion.
I thought you have been misinformed because you say "Tiger should have kept his
relationship with Rebel".
Actually Tiger HAS kept his relationship with Rebel.
But maybe I did not understand your sentence correctly.
>>Here is an extract from the Tiger 14 FAQ:
>>
>>
>>Q: Has Christophe Theron the programmer of Chess Tiger left Rebel
>> Company and moved to Chess Assistant or ChessBase ?
>>
>> A: No.
>>
>> It has always been the policy of Rebel Company to push
>> Chess Tiger into popular User Interfaces as now the case
>> with Chess Assisant and ChessBase. Many people like these
>> User Interfaces and our policy has always been to offer
>> our customers what they want. As a result we have got many
>> enthusiastic reactions.
>>
>>
>>Q: Will Chess Tiger be developed further for Chess Assistant
>> and Chessbase ?
>>
>> A: Not necessarily.
>>
>> Our first and main job is to develop Chess Tiger further
>> for the REBEL interface and release a worthy successor for
>> REBEL 11.0. The Chess Tiger versions made for Chess Assistant
>> and ChessBase are one-time non-exclusive products with no
>> furher obligations nor new plans.
>>
>>
>>
>>And for your information, it is Ed Schröder himself (chairman of the Rebel
>>company) who has negociated the deal with ChessBase.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Thanks for informing me. I hope you keep doing the same work, as a Tiger fan
>that I am.
Don't worry, I will. Rest assured that this deal is a good thing for the Tiger,
and (I hope) for computer chess in general (on a modest scale of course).
Christophe
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