Author: Martin Andersen
Date: 01:10:34 04/18/02
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On April 18, 2002 at 03:42:49, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On April 18, 2002 at 03:33:41, Martin Andersen wrote: > >>On April 18, 2002 at 03:23:01, Shay Bushinsky wrote: >> >>>World's no. 17, Grandmaster Ilya Smirin, leading 1.5-0.5, will play his third >>>game in the 8 game series. Today he will be playing WHITE against a evolutionary >>>version of Deep Junior 7. You may watch the games live with grandmaster >>>commentary + real time evaluations from the playing software + live web cam from >>>the playing venue on www.kasparov.com or join the ChessBase community on the >>>ChessBase game server. >> >>And you could add: Requires Microsoft Windows. > >What makes you think/know that M$ Windows is required? Is this a browser issue >or something else? Hmm, I may have made a mistake :-) If the game can be followed for free, through kasparovchess java board interface, I can see it from Linux. If you need to be a Club Member, I cannot see it, as this requires M$. This is what pisses me off, many of the articles at kasparovchess is for members only. > > >>Why is it that if I choose to run Linux, I cannot >>follow these computer-human matches ? > >Get used to it. Some people have Macs (and other platforms) and could ask these >type of questions every 5 minutes.. It was _your choice_ that you use Linux (as >it is my choice to use a Mac), with all the advantages and disadvantages. >Companies are free to ignore minorities and just be interested in sales numbers >and therefore offer services for Windows only. (yeah, the free market system >also has disadvantages, especially when you're not mainstream) At least that's >what _I_ usually get told when I complain. ;) > >HTH :) > Well, sure the companies can ignore minorities. But they don't have to. How much do you think it would cost for kasparovchess to set up a web-interface with password-access to their Club articles ? Not much. Would it be expensive for www.chessclub.com to set up Blitzin to run under Linux, and write about it on their website ? I wrote to chessclub and told them that I have Blitzin running quite well in linux using Wine. Never heard from them. Martin.
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