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Subject: Re: ChessBase is the Borg...

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 09:48:25 05/20/01

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On May 20, 2001 at 07:41:01, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On May 20, 2001 at 07:19:41, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>On May 20, 2001 at 03:03:40, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:
>>
>>>"At the end of this year there will be a new version of Shredder, running under
>>>the Shredder interface with its flexible windowing, triple-brain function and
>>>the UCI engine format, all of which will be improved and enhances in the
>>>ChessBase project. Shredder 6 will also run under the latest Fritz interface
>>>which will be included on the CD, giving you the best of both the Fritz and the
>>>Shredder worlds."
>>>
>>>This quote from the ChessBase page, says it all as far as I'm concerned.
>>>ChessBase, the 'Borg' of Chess companies, has assimulated Shredder, and most of
>>>us chess customer's as well.  Of course, resistance is futile:).
>>>
>>>
>>>Larry S. Tamarkin
>>
>>PS:  what is a borg, and where does that term come from? if it refers to the way
>>bjorn borg of sweden ruled the tennis world for most of the 70's wih an iron
>>hand, i guess the term "borg" is apt
>>
>>rajen
>
>That is some startrek nerd thing, you would probably need to dress up like spock
>in your free time, to truly appreciate what he means.
>
>Regards
>Jonas

hi jonas: thanks, since you mentioned star trek, i asked my son who explained
what it is

rajen



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