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Subject: Re: New Chess Program by MS. My Findings with Top Brass MS Guys

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 13:00:59 11/16/01

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On November 16, 2001 at 15:43:32, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On November 16, 2001 at 14:14:29, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On November 16, 2001 at 13:56:14, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>Agreed: having the strongest chess program for the PC will lend MS significant
>>>prestige.
>>>
>>>Anybody think they have a chance at accomplishing this without buying out Tiger
>>>or another of the current top engines?
>>
>>This is *NOT* *NOT* *NOT* going to happen.
>>
>>If MS DOES decide it's going to release "..the world's strongest chess
>>program.." they *CANNOT * buy one!
>
>
>
>Yeah, sure.
>
>If MS wanted to have the best Internet browser in the world, they would not buy
>one?
>
>Well that's exactly what they did. They bought Mosaic, now it's called Internet
>Explorer (I concede it has been improved since).
>
>
>
>    Christophe
>

Yes, but they really improved the programs they bought and I guess the code is
now completely rewritten.
some exemples: MS-DOS ( <== QDOS ), Windows NT ( <== some unkown Unix-System)

Rafael B. Andrist



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