Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 10:48:09 01/05/99
Based upond Komputer Korner's recommendation, I downloaded Chess Partner from LokaSoft's website. The program looks fantastic at first sight! Lovely, usable board and pieces, accessible controls, etc. But then I played it. I played it 10 games at G/5, and won 9-1. Now I am a decent player (USCF 2150+), and I am playing it on a rather slow machine (Pentium 75, 40 MB RAM), but I don't even beat the lower rate freeware programs (SSECHESS, ExChess) this badly on this machine. Certainly this is not in the class of any of the professional programs (even 8 year old professional programs like Zarkov 2.6 appear stronger). Crafty et al are much stronger. I used all the default settings. Unless there is something wrong with my setup or something got messed about in the english translation, it appears that this program is quite weak. Which is quite a shame, as the feature set and interface are quite admirable. Has anyone else used this program? What have your result been. perhaps I need to modify some setting somewhere. Chris Dorr USCF Life Master
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