Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:24:32 04/22/98
Hi all: Power 98 is in my hands and I am beginning to submit it to my usual test, that is, just playing against. So now I can only share some scarce impressions. First impression: it was and still is a buggy program. The installation of it produced to me a huge desconfiguration in my equipment that lastly coerced to the awful remedy of formatting. Second: after 48 hours of work with a guru in the very fringe of madness, the system was restaured and Power Chess operated, but hangs always, here and there. Warning: my system is not an old one: a Pentium 200 MMX, 48 Mb in Ram and all the thrills of actual equipment. Third: If you lastly get Power into doing his work, you will enjoy some improvements respect the first version. This time there is a window to see what the engine is thinking when you play the Queen, but without information about number of nodes. Just the line, the score. Spartan poverty is the motto here. Fourth: The queen is WChess engine and the package say is an improved version of it. As much as I gave my old version I have no way to compare the exe. files and I have not lost yet enough games to feel the difference. Thought engine, of course. And a lovely style. Nothing better than Kittinger engines to get a interesting game. Fifth: King features were somewhat improved. That and the post factum commet by the Queen is wonderful for kids and beginners. Sixth: There is a better analysis function. seven: There are more boards and they are pretty pretty.You even can play with 3D boards. Eight: All that you get provided you can install and make operative the whole bloody thing. The original price of the package is low, but maybe you should -as me- include the price of the guru-per-hour work, lost programs not backed (when you have ALL backed? Not me...)and the rest of a sad history. Cheers fernando, the King of Crashes.
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