Author: Mark Young
Date: 20:40:42 01/09/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 23:00:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 09, 2000 at 22:13:03, Marc Plum wrote: > >>On January 09, 2000 at 17:43:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>(snips) >> >>>Kasparov is in ChessBase's pocket. However, from this point forward, since >>>we are going to continue to see this, I believe that I will simply choose to >>>say that "no more crafty versions will be available for ChessBase products". >>> >>>If it is so bad, they really don't need it anyway. If I see any future versions >>>on their web site, I will let my attorney do the talking. >> >>Obviously, you are entitled to do whatever you want with your program. I >>appreciate your making this excellent program available for free. It's nicer, >>IMHO, to use it in the ChessBase playing interfaces than within Winboard, but >>thanks for making it available as long as you have. >> >>That being said, I'm not sure why you seem to be blaming ChessBase for what this >>Dutch amateur said on Kasparov's web page. Is there more information you could >>share that makes this clearer? >> >>Marc Plum > > >No... And I am much less concerned now. I had been sent a copy of excerpts >that seemed to imply that it was a chessbase or kasparov-like article. Now I >see the actual author, and don't really care what his opinion is. If you read >the article slowly and carefully, it looks idiotic anyway. I'd have to have >my name on the 'byline'... Glad to hear it, I was really confused how you were coming to some of your conclusions in your first post. I did not find the article anti-crafty, but you are correct it is a poorly written article with little value pro or con about any chess program. I would have thought you would have read the original article before jumping to conclusions...but mistakes happen.
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