Author: Ritter Rost
Date: 14:31:28 05/02/01
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On May 02, 2001 at 16:33:01, Larry Proffer wrote: >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? That threat certainly was overlooked, but for a change we might see them wearing Kefiya and Agal.
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