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Subject: Re: What happened to Tasc?

Author: Martin Slowik

Date: 14:52:18 11/08/05

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On November 08, 2005 at 13:09:46, O. Veli wrote:

>I recently came up with Tascbase 1.1 demo. I have Chessica. Both programs are
>very attractive in both efficiency and interface. How could they not compete
>with ChessBase?

Hi,

the reason why Tasc went out of business had nothing to do with the software but
with the hardware (dedicated computers). There's an excellent site on the net
explaining it in more detail:

http://www.ismenio.com/tasc.html

Ismenio also found the patent that was responsible for the demise of this great
company:

http://users.boardnation.com/~chesscomputers/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=262

Tasc Regards,
Martin



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