Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 11:42:39 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. > >Greetings, >Steffen. Although I am not in the same league as Bruce or the other "pros", I work at MS and would be more be euphoric to help build a chess engine for a living. Tom Kerrigan and Sam Slutsky are here also, that I know of. Eugene is in the compiler group... So there are enough people with a clue about chess programming to make a go at it. That said, I haven't heard anything about this project. In fact it's been made pretty clear to me in the past that MS is not interested in developing a serious chess engine.... Scott
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