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

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 16:44:34 12/20/99

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On December 20, 1999 at 18:01:15, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote:

>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

The poll question in the gambit-forum is not official, this is an idea from me.
I think this is interesting.

Thanks for your answere !

Frank

>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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