Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:37:16 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 14:42:39, Scott Gasch wrote:
>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
Naturally... To make Eugene work on something else that the things he is
currently doing would probably be a bad idea. He is much more useful for MS at
what he is doing than on a chess program.
If they wanted to have a strong chess engine, they would just buy one.
Christophe
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