Author: Moritz Berger
Date: 08:00:54 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 09:49:45, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Ulrich: >Do you consider Zarkov 4 a version worthy of the price? What is youir impression >of his strenght? Is just another top league program, more or less in the order >of magnitude of current crop? And if it is so, it brings something else to have >a reason to purchase it? >Fernando I played some fast games with Fritz 5 against it some months ago on ICC and it lost most of them. BUT: It plays nice chess, i.e. the moves look "reasonable" and it lost gracefully ;-) The price of $83 (from www.gambitsoft.com) is too high if you don't want the 1.1 million games database that is part of the included ESSENTIA database product. I guess they thought that ESSENTIA was the main act and Zarkov just a nice addon; maybe for some folks it's just the other way round an then the pricing is questionable if you just want the chess engine. After all, Hiarcs 6, Rebel 98 (= Rebel 9), M-Chess 7 all can be had for about $50 and I'd rather buy 2 of those and pay the extra $17 instead of taking Zarkov 4.2 and not wanting ESSENTIA. Just my 0.2$ Moritz
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