Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 06:14:52 04/06/99
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On April 06, 1999 at 04:33:51, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On April 06, 1999 at 02:55:42, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >> >>On April 06, 1999 at 01:02:59, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >> >>>Question 5: Which is in your opinion the strongest chess program >>>at the moment in the HUMAN versus COMP area? >>> >>>REBEL10 50 >>>Hiarcs7 27 >>>Fritz 5.32 20 >>>ChessMaster 6000 9 >>>Mchess8 4 > >I wonder if the voting would have been different if Rebel10 was listed last >instead of first? > >> >>Like most polls the owner of the poll has to at least top one list. I even >>though as you state opinion. I am not so sure this would be the list. >> >> >>>Question 6: Which is in your opinion the strongest chess program >>>at the moment in the COMPUTER versus COMPUTER area? >>> >>>Fritz 5.32 47 >>>Hiarcs7 31 >>>ChessMaster 6000 18 >>>REBEL10 11 >> >>Well there is opinion and fact, my opinion CM6K and the fact CM6K. > >Clearly your opinion = fact :-) Fact = 1st Place SSDF :-) > >> >> >>Plus I would like to add if CM6K was not on the SSDF ratings, then it would not >>even rank a mention in these lists. Which makes me think that a large percentage >>of the people who voted did so with feeling, more than knowledge of what they >>think is better. >> >>For the record I did not vote, But if I did, I would have choosen CM6K for the >>strongest programs for all. Just like the CCC poll a while ago as to which >>program would be number one, no one thought Hiarcs7 would be, but now people >>have jumped on the band wagon, like CM6K. >> >>I still remember all the people who thought CM6K was rubbish. I laugh at those >>who now think is worth mention. I have you people listed. > >Sounds like you won a debate with some folks about the merits of CM6K, >congratulations. Now perhaps you could stop boring the rest of us with your >constant references to this debate, I'm sure you've made your point at least 10 >times already! Just proving my point that this poll is a subjective thing. Like most polls. And when I see I need to refer to the CM6K debates of the past, I will if it help to explain a point I am trying to put across. Plus if you had not made a response to it then I would not have bothered to write this last paragraph :-) Keep the CM6K dream alive.
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