Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:46:07 11/19/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 22:22:03, Tina Long wrote: >The complaint is: although the King Engine (as used in CM6k) has been upgraded >regularly since CM6k was released, the CM people did not do a new deal with the >Author to purchase the latest version. We (I) don't know if that was the CM >peoples or the Authors fault. > >I have King 2.61 engine in my CM6k program. >I won't buy CM7k (as features have not improved from 6k enough to justify my >buying, AND possible computer/driver problems. >I probably will buy King 3.? in whatever form it reaches the market. The development team tells me that the reasons for not upgrading the engine in CM7000 to The King 3.x was NEITHER Mindscape's NOR the the engine author's (Johan de Koning) fault. Apparently, the company that the Johan worked for (and who received the royalties from Mindscape) was involved in a completely unrelated lawsuit (don't ask for details), which had the unfortunate side-effect of freezing all incoming monies to TASC (Johan's company) AND preventing any further contract talks. This lawsuit lasted for many months, preventing any agreement regarding getting The King 3.x into Chessmaster 7000. Everything has been resolved now (too late for 7000, admittedly) and the team tells me that the very latest version of The King WILL be in Chessmaster 8000 (or whatever it's called). They also have several new things on their wish list, which I'm sure that you all would appreciate, but I'd rather not say what they are and risk a jinx on it all. ;) jm
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