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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 6000 engin and the engin of other games

Author: Shep

Date: 01:44:24 07/27/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 22:48:59, leonid wrote:

>What the game, between the most known one, use the engin created by its
>writer?
>
>I ask this question because, for instance, Chessmaster came to life in 1986
>but was very weak. Later the company bought the engin from somebody and
>starting from this moment it became quite strong. I have read, few
>years ago, that few strong games use engin wrote by engin writer. It is
>just like car, one factory make the car but buys engin from next place.
>I would like to know who really wrote its original game completely and
>what game use the engin done by the third person.

Apart from CM, there are a few other programs running with 3rd-party engines.
I can't think of all of them right now, but here are those I can remember
off-hand:
Sierra Power Chess : WChess engine
Mephisto Meisterschach: Shredder 1 engine

There are other cases where the engine writer was not involved in the writing of
the GUI (e.g. Fritz), but these are very common right now; most companies have
specialists for writing certain functions that are beyond the pure engine (GUI,
database etc.).

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Shep



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