Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:09:57 12/01/05
As has been apparent to those with access to beta versions of Vista, this new OS brings a chess program. Consulting my friends in Microsoft, they confirmed me about that. The program is called TitanChess and is developped by a company named Oberon games. Curiously enough, if you go to oberongames.com, you will not find any reference to any kind of chess program as part of his production. This last appears to be one aimed to kids, with a very colourful and Gui-centered line of products. The officer of Microsoft to whom I asked all this did not know the name of the programmer. Nevertheless, other info I have from other sources indicates that the guy behind Microsoft chess is =at least in this moment= the same that is behind a current commercial program, not very known here, Tournament Chess, marketed on the ground of a declared different kind of heuristics. It is not clear, the man told me, if the Titan Chess thing will stay or not. Seems to be the case that other chess programmers are making his offers to be part of the endeavour and that, for the time being, Microsoft simply is waiting the best alternative and/or using any chess program to test the OS. Any extra info I will deliver. Stay tunned. Fernando, Mystical Journalist
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