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Subject: Re: Only Macintosh displayed graphical chess trees in 1994?

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 23:06:29 09/27/98

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On September 27, 1998 at 21:54:31, Tim Mirabile wrote:

>On September 27, 1998 at 18:17:15, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>>Three PC programs offered graphical display of chess variation
>>trees over the last 12 months. (URLs below).
>>
>>Surely this isn't new? Can anyone cite any pre-1995 examples,
>>other than the Macintosh program, SmartChess?
>
>The ChessMachine and later TascBase had this (if I understand what you
>correctly), early 1990's.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll take a look. However, the
   TascBase 2.0 shot (at http://www.tasc.nl/products/tascbase.html),
   especially: http://www.tasc.nl/screens/tbase-3.gif
   says:
   "The database is shown in one of two ways. The classical list view shows
    all in the current key, as well as any child-keys. A new feature is the
    database overview, which shows the key structure as a tree of variations."
   Which gave me the impression that this was something recent - unless
   TascBase 2.0 is an old version?

I'll poke around, though. Did you look at:
- Chess Tree: http://www.shensoft.com/chestree.htm
- Chess Map:  http://www.chessmaps.com/
- Extreme Chess 98:  http://www.allaboutgames.com/powerchess98 ?

They were more what I had in mind.

Thanks,

Richard







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