Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 00:56:30 07/03/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 01:40:47, Michael Cummings wrote: >You need to get a grip of yourself, and second, get a bit of thicker skin. This >is especially true when talking about chessmaster in this forum. > >See we have different levels of chess programs when it comes to people in here. >Programs like Fritz, Junior, etc, are considered more highly regarded in this >forum, than chessmaster ever will be. Even though minus the so called toy >interface and features the genius's in this forum dislike, it is capable if >beating all those other programs. > >I went back and read your post and the replies. Apart from a few replies from >people sticking things up their backsides while typing, the rest of were fine. > >If you ask for opinions, you will always get some arrogant replies from some >people. > >Either way this forum is full of people who can usually tell you what you need >to know. And after a while you know how people behave and treat everyone else in >their replies. > >Casual or new people are not treated any differently. I have been in this forum >for nearly 4+ years now. And was the chessmaster king in here, defending it from >the fools who wanted to bag it for being the only mass commercial program on the >market, capable of beating the rest, while the rest continued to fail to market >their stuff with any great success, while the king engine just got better and >the program sold more and more. > >See for most people here, beyond fritz and the engines it can run, most people >here would not have used any other chess program, thus they will just bag the >hell out of it for the fun of it. > >You want to complain about this and name some names, take it into the chess >thinkers forum, and cut the people you want to pieces in there. We love a good >fight. And Fritz and Co. didn't get better and better? Chessmaster isn't no. one, it's very good but not the very best. It is best at mate finding and is very tactical, maybe as tactical as the best programme out by ChessBase, but it's _not_ no. one...in the top 5 maybe, the top ten yes for certain. It's competitive, of course as it's written by a top commercial chess programmer Johan de Koning, one of the very best, and has been writing the King programme since the 80's and made his debut in 1987.
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