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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 7000 available for prebooking.

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 01:08:23 06/17/99

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On June 17, 1999 at 03:23:26, Shep wrote:

>On June 16, 1999 at 20:39:44, Heiko Mikala wrote:
>
>>From what I understood, it is
>>very unlikely, that CM7000 will include a new engine. There seems
>>to be a new engine (3.x), but, if I understood that right, it is
>>a financial question and a question of the contract. But Johann
>>didn't want to say anything concrete about the reasons, although
>>the young guy tried hard to get any news from Johann.
>>
>>So, anybody listening, if you want to see a new engine in CM7000,
>>storm Mindscape, tell them that Johanns engines are worth gold,
>>and that you want to see a new engine, no matter what it costs
>>(for Mindscape). ;-)
>
>Actually, I think this may be better news than you think.
>After all, I don't really want to see Johan's great engines in another
>Chessmaster, unless the GUI became much more useable for testers like me.
>
>I'd rather see his King 3.x engine in the Fritz environment.
>
>Do you have any idea how long it takes to run the Louguet suite alone in
>Chessmaster?? It won't read PGN with FEN, won't read EPD...
>And even the format in which games are stored was changed from 5500 to 6000.
>That sucks big time!
>
>Unless CM 7000 fixes all these inconveniences, I'm perfectly happy with Johan
>going for another way to release his engine (I only hope he will release it at
>all!).
>
>---
>Shep

From whast I hear, he has a contract with mindscape to only use his engine in
their game. He is allowed to run his engine in whatever he likes eg; Tourny's.
But he can only put his engine into Chessmaster.

Well from what I heard this is the case. I might be wrong



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