Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:12:29 07/27/98
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On July 27, 1998 at 11:00:54, Moritz Berger wrote: >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 Hi moritz: well, I am one of those guys completely uninterested in database features, so, if the engine is not that strong it seem the issue has been settled. I ever look for a reason to buy against odds, but this seems to be too much. Not even a pretty interface? A voice joking? Well, then nope Thanks Fernando
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