Author: O. Veli
Date: 11:56:04 05/29/03
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On May 26, 2003 at 12:51:02, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 26, 2003 at 12:19:46, Jay Kasick wrote: > >>I wouldnt mind buying it again. I remeber having it for an old 386 back in the >>day on a floppy. It was the bomb! > >No doubt that it was better than other programs at it's time but the problem is >that richard lang did not work to improve it. > I am not so sure that Richard Lang did not work on it. I am not a programmer, do not understand a lot from programming. My perception is that Mr. Lang is very strong when programming for limited hardware. In the days of CG1-3, Chess Genius was among the very best, if not the best program. Whereas others would come in 2 or 3 disks, CG was always a 1 disk program. Then the Pentiums came, and Chess Genius did not improve a lot, even up to version 7. It was just a transformation from DOS to Windows, and some GUI related items but nothing in the strength. However Mr. Lang wrote the first professional program for Palm and Pocket PC devices. Later Chess Tiger came, and Fritz came for the Pocket PC. Then Mr. Lang imported Chess Genius to Series 60 phones! and then Windows powered phones. He is always the first to import his program to limited hardware. I very much admire his efforts in this, and have always enjoyed Chess Genius. Whether he will spend time in improving the Chess Genius PC, we may never know. Maybe he believes that he has improved Chess Genius all the way he could, and like to try other platforms, or he does not see any sense in making CG stronger. Hopefully he will never leave the chess programming.
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