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Subject: Re: Pirated Chess Tiger 15 Engines

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 21:08:24 04/12/03

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On April 12, 2003 at 23:30:55, Charles Worthington wrote:

>I am not 100% certain who it was but someone from CCC sent me an e-mail
>requesting the Chessbase version of the Chess Tiger 15 engine in exchange for
>various other Chessbase Engines. No, I will not send commercial engines to
>anyone on this site. That is stealing for those very few of you who do not seem
>to understand this. The regulars here understand this well and do not make such
>requests. These programmers work VERY hard to make these programs available to
>us and you are taking from their pockets every time you send a commercial engine
>to your buddies. Chess programmers are not getting rich writing chess programs
>like some seem to think. Chessbase has few programmers and they have so many
>tasks to complete that they cannot even begin to work on Deep Fritz 8 at this
>time. They are not the huge corporate conglomerate that some seem to think they
>are and they do not have the funds to hire the additional programmers to handle
>all these tasks. I know several who work there and also the main owner so I know
>this to be true. If you want a chess program...go out and buy it. They are
>reasonably priced and it will help the programmer immensely in his work.
>
>Thank you,
>Charles


Not to mention you are also taking money out of Christophe Theron's pocket as
well and we all know how hard he works to help the average consumer!



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