Author: Sam Slutzky
Date: 11:28:12 01/05/99
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>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
>
Just as a side note, I'm fairly certain that Age of Empires and other
similar games are not actually written by the main Microsoft folk similar to the
person with whom Lawrence spoke. They are written by small companies which
Microsoft has bought usually.
Sam Slutzky
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