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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 21:14:17 11/15/01

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On November 15, 2001 at 19:48:08, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On November 15, 2001 at 16:37:16, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Yeah, but Scott, Sam, and I are completely expendable... ;)


Naturally not, I just assume the same applies to you and other skilled people at
MS.




>>If they wanted to have a strong chess engine, they would just buy one.
>
>While I agree that that approach makes the most sense, it would be nice if you
>acnowledged that MS doesn't always just buy stuff when they want to enter a new
>market.


I just said they were doing it often, and that it often makes sense, and that it
makes sense in this case.

Now if you want me to send some flames to MS, well, I'm too tired for this
tonight. :)

Try again tomorrow. ;)



    Christophe



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