Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 21:17:48 11/15/01
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On November 15, 2001 at 20:55:10, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>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
...and it was based on Turbo Chess, by Borland.
Christophe
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