Author: Tina Long
Date: 03:46:28 10/03/01
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On October 03, 2001 at 04:06:19, stuart taylor wrote: > >What makes a person "go" for something in particular? Perhaps the fact that they >have that particular program at present? >S.Taylor Hi Stuart, That works for me! - I barrack for what I own & what I think of the Authors. The first chesscomputer I played with was a Mephisto Polgar & so I was a fan of Richard Lang & convinced my Stepdad to buy Genius 1,2,3,4. Later I discovered that the Polgar was written by Ed Schroder, and as Richard seemed to have peaked with Genius3, and Ed had such a helpful website, I became a fan of Rebel. Then I bought Hiarcs6 - on the advice of Thorsten Czub and liked the way it played what I thought were ununderstandable moves. But I was still mainly a Rebel Fan. I dabbled with Chessbase Lite & bought Fritz5 as Chessbase was too expensive, but never felt any (devotion?) to it. "The King" topped the SSDF by a chunk a long time ago, with a card that went into your PC, so I watch it in Chessmaster to see how it goes. I hate the Chessmaster company for no particular reason except I think their box-lids have always been false advertising. The Chessmaster company being bought and sold helps me to hate them, but John Merlino is such a great guy that I can't hate them much. I bought CM7k for the long awaited new King engine - & now I hate CM7k because all it's beautiful boards are too small (in 1024x768) so I have to use an ugly plain custom board. So now I have Hiarcs7.32 which I believe plays the very best moves if it is given time to decide, I believe it is its time management that costs it the 100 or so points it is behind. I also think Rebel is a better player than it's SDDF results suggest, but can't see why it doesn't do better in Comp-comp games. I am (anti) Shredder & Genius now because they cost twice as much as other programs. I think of Chris Therone and his Tigger as the new boy, even though he isn't very new (he is to me). I like his posts here, I like that he used to test Tigger in the field on a 386laptop, and I like the way Gambit Tigger goes King hunting. We bought Tigger because we were due to buy Rebel & there wasn't a new Rebel. I don't actually play against Tigger much, it is far too ruthless for me. I have great respect for Dr Bob Hyatt, so Crafty is my favourite underdog. So for me, seeing the SSDF list is a bit like reading the results of a triathlon race, I have likes and dislikes & I'm keen to see how the programs have pro/regressed. And the margin of error is so large that there's no Real winners or losers. Question for any old codgers who have read this far: Who wrote Novag Constellation, and/or Expert? See Ya guys Tina Long
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