Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:56:52 01/05/99
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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.
Trivial and unsophisticated? Certainly no program has it all, but I'd be curious
to know what he thinks could be so revolutionarily overdone. Fritz is possibly
the one that is closest to having it all except looks. As for database programs,
clearly a marriage between ChessBase and Chess Assistant would be the consumer's
dream, and though there is certainly room for improvement I'd hardly go so far
as to claim they are trivial and unsophisticated. Besides, his claim isn't
supported by Microsoft's ventures into other software markets. Take games for
example. Some such as Ages of Empires are superb, but there have also been some
horrors released with the Microsoft logo. Some products such as CB Magazine,
simply blow me away, which I doubt a chessplayer even dreamed would exist a
decade ago.
Albert Silver
>
>Honestly, I think he is wrong about this, but I certainly would like to see a
>poll question about it, to see what other's think.
>
>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
>
>
>On January 04, 1999 at 17:44:23, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Now that the elections are over, we are searching
>>for interesting CCC Poll questions. We also need
>>the possible answer choices.
>>
>>If you have any ideas, please post them here or
>>email them to icd@icdchess.com
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>- Steve (ICD/Your Move)
>>P.S. If you have not seen it yet, there is
>>a message from my family to all CCC members at:
>>http://www.icdchess.com/steve.jpg
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