Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:34:29 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 14:26:38, Peter Berger wrote:
>On November 15, 2001 at 14:18:11, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>
>>[1] OK, it's already a world-class program. But the 'become' refers to Ferret
>>--> *becoming* MS-Chess.
>
>Well,let's dream a little longer :). Ferret is already ready and competitive and
>probably WinBoard-compatible.
>
>And whatever you can say about the MS guys they definitely are able to create
>_decent_ GUIs . So a MS-Chess with Ferret as major engine and the option to
>import all the WB engines ; GUI built by Microsoft?
>
>I don't believe this will happen but it would definitely be a program I'd buy
>right away.
>
>Cheers,
>pete
That's why they don't need any talents. Many people would buy their crap right
away (and actually many people do).
That leaves two solutions:
1) they want to have a very strong chess program => they buy an existing strong
engine and write their own GUI above.
2) they don't need a strong engine and they just have to clone a free source
code and stuff their own GUI.
In both cases, if they wanted to do it they would have done it since a long
time.
I don't buy the idea of a MS team working on a chess program. That makes no
sense.
Christophe
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