Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 01:35:40 06/24/99
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On June 23, 1999 at 22:03:50, Bruce Moreland wrote: I do not hate chessBase. I like Matthias W. and the only thing i don't like is the actions they do. i have nothing against the persons. They only try to do a good job. but when their actions are mean, than i have to criticise this. >That last question is going to start a forest fire and everyone is going to get >on Thorsten and he'll probably get kicked out of here again. Thanks bruce. but it will not happen this way, although they like to do so. i was in paderborn, i have seen the whole chessbase team "dying", and this gives me a lot of pleasure to compensate for the next year. >Chessbase is obviously the 500 pound gorilla of computer chess. They are >clearly the Microsoft of this field, which is an odd thing for me to say since I >used to work for Microsoft, but I think that it fits. > >They have several strong engines. They have a nice interface. They sell a lot >of copies. > >And they have something that Microsoft doesn't have, they have an attached >consumer magazine that seems to be the dominant magazine of this type in >Germany, which is a major market. > >You can't go to one of these tournaments without hearing a lot of strange >Chessbase/CSS stories. The rest of these publishers are strange, too, but >Chessbase seems to be the most aggressive. > >bruce :-))) I like Matthias Wüllenweber. He is in my opinion ok. But he is only ONE guy out of a bunch of strange people.
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