Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:49:23 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 08:13:32, Harald Faber wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 03:45:13, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>I recently met a former Microsoft department head, who is now a chess coach and >>using many of the availble playing programs, databases & tutorials. What he >>told me I found truly amazing! He said that the currently availble programs >>were from a programming point of view rather unsophisticated and trivial in >>design. He suggested that if Microsoft (or other large software maker), decided >>to get involved in creating these things, the results would (or at least could), >>blow away the currently existing things in the marketplace. > >What is amazing in there? Microshit has much more manpower and much more money >to develop a strong engine and a fine GUI. >The commercial programs (exception Chessmaster) are programmed by only one or 2 >persons. They would also not be able to write winword as it is, there are some >more people involved. >If Ed, Marty or whoever would have more co-programmers there would be a big jump >in GUI and in strength. Just look what happened after Ed has co-operated with >Christophe. What happened? Enrique
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