Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 11:58:24 10/10/98
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On October 10, 1998 at 10:33:46, Steven Schwartz wrote: >We have now witnessed, over the last 18 months, the >lowering of professional-based chess playing software >prices by, in many cases, 60% to 65%. > >I was wondering what others here see as the future of >this particular genre? > >- Steve (ICD/Your Move) I forsee that in a few years (may even be a couple of years)Chessbase Gmbh will become the Microsoft of the chess world.It will provide a basic interface in the form of the Fritz GUI(just as microsoft provides the windows operating system to which everybody provides applications) to which most of the programmers will provide engine modules so that the purchasers can play a huge variety of engine vs engine games without the need to have 2 separate computers or auto player compatibility.to a certain extent this is already happening. some of the very strongest engines are available or will soom be available as modules(F5, J5, H6, Crafty 15, H7 Nimzo 99etc))No other chess programme provides such a versatile facility besides all the other tremendous features that fritz has. Even new programmers will be drawn to this scheme as they will only have to concentrate on producing the chess engine without bothering about the GUI or other bells and whistles. Plus they will be assured of support from Chessbase. The Dos Dinosaurs will die a certain death. Rajen Gupta
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