Author: Marcus Kaestner
Date: 08:11:34 01/04/00
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>The main problem Bob is, that computerschach and spiele is using this >topic as a battlefield to kill a concurrent magazine. >They have done those things with Europa-Rochade, another >famous german chess magazine, before. > >the reason is: > >friedel and co. don't like that other people in germany >have different opinons about chessbase-products (friedel is owner >of chessbase and publisher of computerschach and spiele). >therefore computerschach and spiele and their guys >try to stop any publications about their products >and about them. > >markus kaestners magazine chessbits is new, but has many >readers and friends , because he is doing a great job. > >therefore he is a danger for frederic and chessbase because >they cannot continue their monopol situation and cannot >censor the german public anymore. think/imagine >that germany is a big market for computerchess products >and friedel with having Chessbase PLUS computerschach and spiele >has big influence. > >They threatened other people before (Europa-Rochade, Gambit Soft) >and their were several law-suits and also >dirty things behind the scene. > >they think they can continue this. but time has changed. >friedel is not anymore controlling anything. >there is internet. there is europa-rochade, there is >chessbits and there is CCC. > >also they have no control over the german-television station WDR >(they would like to have :-))) since the makers of >the german television chess-stuff don't like this >kind of "behaviour" too. > >The thing with the Nunn-test (~ none-test :-))) >is just a way to stop markus, who has done a great job >publishing his 4 editions so far. > >the question is: do we allow commercial people to destroy >computerchess by doing these kind of threatening behind the scene, >or in other words: how much damage is chessbase doing to the >computerchess-community ?! very good posting, thorsten. you exactly got the points. marcus
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