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Subject: Re: probable Kasparov ting.

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:55:30 01/09/00

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On January 09, 2000 at 20:20:10, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 09, 2000 at 17:50:50, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>[snip]
>
>>Isn't this "off the deep end"?
>
>He provides an engine of commercial quality (consider the endgame tablebase
>files and other advanced features) that competes well with commercial engines
>(look at FICS and ICC results, together with tournaments at just about any time
>control you might choose) and is the only program with open source.  For his
>kindness, he gets called names.
>
>I think a bad report like this must be sparked by fear of something, but I have
>no idea what.  Why would you bite a hand that is feeding you without cause?  Any
>other engine will have large royalties associated with it.  What kind of stupid
>junk are they trying to pull?  It's like someone hands you a $20 bill and you
>slap them in return.  Very strange.  And from a precursory analysis, all the
>conclusions are clearly without basis.
>
>I have always perferred Chess Assistant to Chessbase, and this sort of thing
>really cements my already hard-headed opinion.  I have defended Chessbase in the
>past, but now I think that I simply don't like that company.  That's
>irresponsible journalism.

It's not ChessBase's article, so why are you blaming them for it?

Dave



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