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Subject: Re: ChessBase Always Wins

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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