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Subject: Re: Is Chess Assistant dead already?

Author: Steve Coladonato

Date: 09:17:37 08/31/04

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On August 31, 2004 at 11:37:21, Albert Silver wrote:

>On August 31, 2004 at 10:50:07, Steve Coladonato wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2004 at 09:30:04, Albert Silver wrote:
>>
>>>On August 31, 2004 at 02:31:55, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 31, 2004 at 01:31:50, ERIQ wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I haven't heard anything about them in at least a year do they plan on coming
>>>>>out w/ a version 8 or just letting chessbase have the whole market.
>>>>
>>>>     Chess Assistant is a very fine program with such
>>>>     a lot of features and hard to improve I think.
>>>>     Kurt
>>>
>>>It can be improved, and it is under development.
>>>
>>>                                Albert
>>Albert,
>>
>>Do you think they will be coming out with a Linux version?
>>
>>Steve
>
>In all honesty, no. It's a question of user-base size to justify the effort to
>make a Linux version. You may argue that Linux is growing, etc, and that there
>are a lot of Linux users, but Chess Assistant isn't a corporate piece of
>software, and is for home end-users, which do not make up the larger part of the
>Linux community.

That's a shame as I was under the impression that CA had a lot of Delphi code in
it and that the port to Kylix on Linux was possible.  Perhaps not feasible
though.

>
>                                             Albert



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