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Subject: Re: Will we be seeing any new versions of The King in Chessmaster?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:25:36 12/30/99

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On December 29, 1999 at 16:53:06, Chessfun wrote:

>On December 29, 1999 at 14:38:21, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On December 29, 1999 at 14:05:17, Imran Hendley wrote:
>>
>>>I think that Johan de Koning has written a version 3.0 of the King (but I am not
>>>sure) Will we see any new versions in the next Chessmaster or another GUI? Is he
>>>still affiliated with Chessmaster?
>>
>>The development team tells me that Johan is working directly with them to put
>>The King 3.x into the next version of Chessmaster.
>>
>>jm
>
>John,
>    This is excellent news. As a non-owner of 7000, but owner of 6000, 5500,
>5000, 4000 and 3000 I can't wait tell you guys get it to market.
>The reason for me not getting 7000 naturally is not money it is only $37.00
>Canadian but what appeared to be a rush to the christmas market with the sam6e
>engine as 6000.
>Is any consideration being given to adding auto player support or online support
>such as with the new Chess Tiger.
>
>Thanks.

Well, the development team just had their yearly brainstorming session (the
first of them, anyway) regarding the next version of Chessmaster. I know that
Auto232 and Winboard were both discussed, but I have no idea of their priorities
at this time.

jm



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