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Subject: Re: CM6000 Just Because it's Cheap, is Not Weak

Author: Vicente Fernández Herrasti

Date: 05:52:54 12/04/98

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On December 04, 1998 at 01:53:03, Kai Skibbe wrote:

>On December 03, 1998 at 23:26:30, Vicente Fernández wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 1998 at 19:13:41, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>>
>>>I get the impression that because CM6000 is very cheap to buy then people do not
>>>consider it to be very strong.
>>>
>>>Well with the amount of money that the Chessmaster programs pull in, I think
>>>that the guy who programs the kings engine would also be pulling in allot of
>>>money, and thus would have the resources to make such a strong engine even
>>>stronger.
>>>
>>>CM6000 is marketed for the mass public, and because it does not have an
>>>autoplayer and cannot play against other programs unsupervised, that alot of
>>>people dismiss CM6K and for that matter the versions before, because of the lack
>>>of results against other programs.
>>>
>>>And I have already started to see that CM6K has been pulling in some very good
>>>results in tournaments already, and all I hear, is "what a suprise". Anyone who
>>>has been using Chessmaster since CM5000, knows that it is very strong.
>>>
>>>Well I hope CM6K does beat the other programs if anyone out there will play it
>>>manually (too SSDF members), just to shut up people who keep making comments
>>>that this cheap software program, which sells more than any other chess program
>>>100 times over. Cannot be strong.
>>>
>>>And to Mindscape, put in a damn autoplayer so you can shut all these people up
>>>and kick their sorry butt.
>>
>>I have manually played 4 games between CM6000 an fritz 5.1, 60-60, on a k62-300
>>with 128 ram.  Chessmaster 6000 leads 3 to 1, winning both games with black.
>>Using the thinking lines window I can see that chessmaster gets a more accurate
>>evaluation of the positions and, most important, "sees" drawbacks and mates
>>before Fritz 5 does.  Although the number of games played manually doesn´t count
>>statistically, I can tell for sure that CM6000 is very, very strong, maybe the
>>strongest... who knows?  And, I agree with Mr. Cummings: cheap is not weak, and,
>>surely, everybody would like to see an autoplayer on the new King version.
>
>Do you play the games on one computer ? In this case the match is unfair for the
>opponent of chessmaster, because cm6000 uses the processor even if you have
>played the match with permanent brain of.
>Conclusion : No matches with cm6000 on one computer !
>
>Best regards
>Kai
No, Kai, I am talking about two different computers with the same processor and
RAM.
Vicente



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