Author: KarinsDad
Date: 09:07:06 01/06/99
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On January 06, 1999 at 10:26:59, Bert Seifriz wrote: >>>>>3) Microsoft has a lot of resources, money, high speed equipment, and talent. > >SNIP >>>right people (thinking that Microsoft wouldn't attempt to hire the best people >>>"in the field" who could start out running instead of crawling is naive) could >>>probably create some strong software in a short period of time. >>> >>>I believe that such a project would take a lot of resources and dedication, but >>>the US put a man on the moon in what, 8 years after Kennedy proposed it? >>> >>>Microsoft could probably have the strongest engine in the world in 2 years and >>>if they wanted to, > > >This is exactly the point. Why should Microsoft care to build a >chess engine? They do not have the slightest reason! >And if? They would either buy an existing company or >engage some of the chess programmers you already know. >After all why do you think the persons we know are in any >way inferior to a Microsoft engineer? >There are for example only a handful of persons in the world >who are able to program chess in assembly language! And these >are not MS engineers! Bert Obviously, Microsoft would never go into the field (the money isn't good enough). The question is not one of "why would MS do it?" (they wouldn't), but rather one of "what would happen if they did?". I do not think that the chess program developers are inferior to Microsoft engineers. Where did you get that from? :) KarinsDad
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