Author: Bo Persson
Date: 08:58:22 12/01/05
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On December 01, 2005 at 09:09:57, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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 Interesting, so now Microsoft have decided that a chess program is an integral part of an operating system? Not just a web browser and a media player? Just wait until the EU commission hears about this! :-) Bo Persson
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