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Subject: Re: A new chess program on the horizon?

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 17:55:10 11/15/01

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On November 15, 2001 at 12:39:27, Slater Wold wrote:

>You have a point.  But from what I understand, this is *NOT* the case.  They are
>actually making their own.
>
>Microsoft buying Chessbase makes NO sense, since Chessbase probably makes 1% of
>what Microsoft does.  Chessbase is worth what?  A few million?  Microsoft can
>create their own software and run Chessbase out of the market for less money.
>
>There already is a Microsoft Chess program, that came with an add on pack a few
>years ago.  It wasn't very good, but it shows they had started on something.

Chessbase can only dream of making 1% of what Microsoft makes per year.

The chess program that went out in Windows Entertainment Pack 4 was contributed
software, meaning that an employee (not me) wrote it and they shipped it.

It was monumentally bad.

bruce




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