Author: Jason Waugh
Date: 09:29:03 05/19/03
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On May 19, 2003 at 11:34:40, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Everybody who plays chess and who loves to collect his own games, uses ChessBase >tools. Simply because they present the state of the art of the actual chess >documentation. Don't tell me that someone is happy with PGN. Then he's a bad >player because he never thinks about variations in chess. But chess without >variations is not chess. Ed Schröder's REBEL suffered from that illness already. I think you are suffering from a slight bit of delusion.... most people that play chess don't know anything about PGN and wouldn't know what a "variation" is. Furthermore, most people that play chess are what you would consider a "bad player" - the only thing they know about chess is that it's kind of fun and they can pick up a cheap board or travel set at the local Wal-Mart. If they happen to stumble upon the fact that their computer can play chess too, they'll likely find out because they happen to see some software that can be found at same said local Wal-Mart, which is invariably going to be Chessmaster - the occasional CM9K, but for the most part the CM8K that's sitting in the discount bin for $15. Jason W.
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