Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:18:11 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 14:11:50, Steffen Jakob wrote: >On November 15, 2001 at 14:00:30, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On November 15, 2001 at 12:06:24, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>>I heard it through the grapevine that Microsoft is working on a chess program. >>> >>>Nothing like Deep Blue, but something to rival Chessmaster, and I am guessing, >>>Chessbase. >>> > >// ... > >>I doubt it very much. For a huge number of reasons[1]. First, the market is >>small. Second, you need a great chess programmer to make a great chess program. > >//... > >Two computer chess related experts come into my mind which have/had a connection >to MS: Bruce Moreleand and Eugene Nalimov. I don't think that Bruce is currently an employee at Microsoft. I also worked there for 9 years as a subcontractor (but I don't count as a great chess programmer -- this is just a Shakespearian 'Aside'). :-) There are actually several other good chess programmers I know of who have worked at MS or are working at MS. But it takes a great one to write a great program. It is possible (I suppose) that MS could coax Bruce into making Ferret become MS-Chess or something, and that could become a world-class program[1]. But given his reluctance to publish the program, I imagine he could fend off even a million dollar proposal to make his program become available. ;-) [1] OK, it's already a world-class program. But the 'become' refers to Ferret --> *becoming* MS-Chess.
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