Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 11:08:08 05/19/03
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On May 19, 2003 at 12:29:03, Jason Waugh wrote: >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. I apologize for the oversight of the tremendously good CM products. But I don't live next to a wal-mart. In fact i never visited one. I have CM4 or such with God on the Front Page (I know it because this man has a big beard!). But still, every chessplayer plays chess with thinking about alternatives. That is what I call variations and these variations cry for being stored and that is only possible in ChessBae IMO. Ok Albert? :) > > >Jason W.
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