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Subject: Re: About Ed...!!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 02:01:55 03/12/02

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On March 11, 2002 at 22:39:38, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 11, 2002 at 22:33:41, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>>You can see how much Ed cares about customers in his website. It's very friendly
>>>and answers your question about your problem. I'm happy customer since Rebel6 to
>>>Century4.
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>yes, Ed made all the time a good work and have now many years a fantastic
>>webpage. I believe the first commercial webpage about computer chess.
>>
>>And ... Ed support WinBoard with a new project (Rebel for WinBoard).
>>Like this!
>>
>>User from all Chess GUIs can so play with Rebel.
>>Furthermore, 3 of the best commercial programs comes from Ed with a great
>>support.
>
>Ed is one of the pioneers in computer verses GM matches.
>Ed is very helpful, even to whinging twits.
>Ed is an all-around nice guy.
>
>Of all the commercial programmers, definitely Ed and Christophe contribute the
>most here, with Amir Ban third.  None of the other commercial programmers put in
>much of a showing.  SMK posts here once in a while.  The others very rarely or
>not at all.
>
>Ed has volunteered his time as a moderator of CCC, which is a thankless job.

But is going to end soon :-)


>If there were no Ed, we would certainly want to try to invent one.
>;-)

Thanks for all praise. The story of Terry vs Gambitsoft is 2 sided, sending
someone a cdrom for free (for me) is cheap, I don't have to pay the full price
<grin> and in this specific case I could help somebody who had some legitimate
rights. There is also a commercial side on the case, to do some damage control
as the sudden disappearance of Gambitsoft hurts the good name of the industry.

About Gambitsoft: like ICD (Hi Steve!) I have only good things to mention, a
terrific, accurate customer friendly company. That is to say till last summer.
In June/July 2001 Gambitsoft became quiet, no more emails, no more phone calls.
Ever since then I only hear bad things about Gambitsoft in email and public
forums.

I have met Roland Troeger (owner of Gambitsoft) several times, he is good and
reliable person and always was full of new ideas to improve his business, he
certainly is not the person seeking for the situation of today.

My assumption is that something real bad has happened in his life making it
impossible for him to run his company, he is just not the man for a one way
ticket to the Bermuda triangle.

Whatever the reason might be, it will be hard for Gambitsoft to recover lost
ground and regain trust in the hypothetical case he wants to return into
business.

Ed



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