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Subject: chessbase to become the microsoft of chess

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 06:51:00 11/01/98


more and more programmers are now shifting their allegience to chessbase and
producing chessbase compatible engines-Fritz, Junior,Nimzo,Hiarsc, crafty,
Comet, Exchess etc. a lot of people think that this is not a good thing but I
think that this is a wonderful development for consumers- a uniform GUI in 32
bit win NT compatible form; Learn once, learnt for all; huge amount of excellent
features; engine vs engine matches can be played in the comfort of your home on
a single computer. Minimum amount of bugs; no more DOS problems, huge savings in
purchase of new programmes etc.

for the programmers also a lot of benefit as evey one will be writing for and
therefore will be supported by chessbase marketing muscle; they can now
concentrate on producing the strongest possible engine and not bother about
other factors like GUI, features etc. New or financially deficient or part time
programmers can now have a good chance of releasing commercial versions of their
engines

What do people think/

Rajen gupta



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