Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 13:33:01 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 15:12:16, Ritter Rost wrote: >Thanks, Duncan, sounds absolutely plausible to me. > >Probably ChessBase didn't even have to pay huge sponsoring money to BGN to avoid >the random amateur programs. Instead they simply introduced them to CCC and >said: "Look, here you can read how chess programmers communicate. If anything >goes wrong or if they don't like your contracts, you'll have open letters, >e-mail wars, conspiration theories and all hell loose against you. Now do you >want a professional partner or not?" I agree, Matthias, absolutely. Except the all hell isn't against Chessbase. From anyone. Chessbase behaved predictable, reasonable, sensible. Questions arise only on the independant expert advice. How could their advice lead to a two-Chessbase program contest for the Kramnik prize. Didn't they realise German TV viewers would again have to sit through several hours of Matthias and Frederic instead of watching Star Trek?
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