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Subject: Re: Software of the year `99 (vote) !

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 15:01:15 12/20/99

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I'm not completely sure about what your saying in your post below, but I like
very much the concept of voting what we think is the top software that came out
this year, and I hope Steve and the ICD guys will make an official poll question
of it.  My top 2 picks for 1999;

* Company, CHESS BASE.  Product: Fritz6 - Completely re-written, very
customizable, with a big database, with lots of annotated games. All the
extensive features of Fritz 5.32 are retained, with some new ones added.
Relatively bug free, considering the complexity of the program.  Also good
support from Chess Base, with patches downloaded from time to time, even too
address minor issues.

* Company, CHESS ASSISTANT.  Product: Mikhail Tal - 8th World Chess Champion -
Its like 2 products for the price of 1.  First off, there is, 'Tal Games' which
is all of Tal's serious tournament games (mostly annotated in depth), with a
current version of Chess Assistant geared just for looking, printing and
analysing these games.  Then there is, 'Play As Tal', which opens seperately and
contains more than 260 positions from Tal games that you can practice or test
against, with scoring.

I feel that both of the above products are impressive, with the respective
companies offering many other products, both simular & different, and best of
all competitively priced.


Larry T.



On December 20, 1999 at 14:08:42, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hello,
>
>(copy from the WinBoard forum)
>
>an idea is to vote the software of the year 1999 !
>
>This action in the Gambit-Soft forum ...
>under ... :-)
>
>http://www.gambitsoft.de/wwwforum/
>
>(programs, or developement example: Nalimov TBs) !
>
>2 cast one`s vote !
>
>vote 1 = 2 points
>vote 2 = 1 points
>
>I hope this english is correct and my idea is good !
>
>Have a nice day
>Frank
>
>End of vote: 27.12.99 !



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