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Subject: CM6000 is for little children and young girls...

Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin

Date: 05:20:15 12/21/98


I was at a number of scholastic tournament over the years with alot of kids
between 8 & 12 years old.  In the lobby of the hotel the ones that had notebook
computers all had Chess Master on them.  They really liked the colorful (and
this mostly on D' Scann screens), chess boards & game sounds, with music.

My girlfriend is 28.  She doesn't really like chess too much anymore, but
suddenly she is playing Chess Master 6000 everyday.  Why is that?  "I like the
personalities"  You can set them for whatever blitz time control you like, they
start with a preconfigured rating, but then after each game they change, just
like in a real tournament, except that after I lose, I don't have some dumm guy
hitting on me, while offering his 'Great chess wisdom'.  I really like the Wendy
personality right now. You should try this Larry, You'll like it".

You can't argue with the like's/disslike's of little kids & young girls, so I
wouldn't even try.  I'm sure Mindscape figured this out in one of their
marketing 101 meetings, said, "Screw it to the advanced chess features, lets
make a product that we can sell to these little kids and young girls, and maybe
we'll throw in a few bones for those dumm-ass chess master's too later on..."


Ho, Ho, Ho everybody!
mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!



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