Author: gerard sanchez
Date: 03:24:15 05/14/01
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Your right Josh. Alred Sloan, groundbreaking and highly regarded book, "My Years with General Motors." Believe it or not, he, Alred Sloan, says that companies actually NEED competition to remain healthy, lack therof only makes a company sluggish and sloppy which only leads to extinction. Sloan, even helped strengthen a competitor against GM to ensure continous competition. (Best I can recall, read the book a year ago, the company was Chrysler) Gerard On May 13, 2001 at 12:39:15, Steve Maughan wrote: >Joshua, > >I don't think monopolies work. So I don't think that if Chessbase gets a >monopoloy it will be to the benefit of computer chess. I also think that >Chessbase doesn't opperate at the source code level and hence the idea that if, >"Mchess, Shredder, Nimzo, Chess Tiger, Gambit Tiger , Gandalf, Hiarcs, Fritz , >Junior, and so on and puts it all together = +30 ELO" is not applicable. >Chessbase operates at the DLL (aka *.eng) level. > >That said I think plain old Winboard will give ChessBase competition, if only in >devaluing the chess engines. > >Steve
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