Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 12:11:07 01/05/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 13:48:09, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >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 No it is weak on slow machines. Like Crafty it needs a fast computer. Even so it is not in the same league as the top programs but it's feature set is so good it has a good future for one important reason. It allows other engines like the Fritz GUI does, so you should soon see Crafty as an alternate engine for it. I doubt that you will win a game from the Crafty engine on computers faster than a Pentium 266. -- Komputer Korner
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