Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 20:43:39 08/24/03
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On August 24, 2003 at 22:26:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >a)Great GUI, wonderfull boards, you really can play with them. >b)Engine by Kittinger strong enough to kill almost anywone here, but just as any >other top program does anyway. The difference: a more "coruscated" style, I do >not find a better word to define it. You will feel it at once compared to any >other top engine. But of course this is a very subjetive judgement. >c)Search lot less deep than any of the Chessbase family. It takes time to get >12-14 plys. My PC is an Athlon running at 1400 or so Mhz >d) not so fast seach speed as competence. Around 200 Knodes/second in middle >game. I would say as an explanation that the engine has lot more knowledge than >average and/or has a somewhat old fashion search inclined to full width in some >plys. >e) nothing specially great or bad to say about openings >e) Very flexible or curious or extreme way of handling the time. It can expend >easily 15-20 minutes in some positions, then 4-10 seconds in another. >These partial observations are the product of three games at 40 in 60 minutes. >All victories for the beast, but not crushing at all. >All in all I am happy: lot less features than average Chessbase products, but >pretty graphic -important to me- and clearly different style of playing. What >else you can ask? >Fernando I know this may be difficult to elaborate further, but what does it mean to have a "coruscated" style? I assume it means inconsistent in some way, but how so? Thanks for the review, Roger
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