Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 09:01:29 05/27/99
With Hiarcs coming out as a Fritz engine this is just one more slot of the strong winning engines that Chess Base has in their corral. (Which win everything & every Human in sight:)). Rebel will have a windows version, and presumably the engines Chess Tiger & Chess Partner engines. Strong but not yet a big challenge to the number of 'killers' that Chess Base has. And Milleniem Genius 6? Well the Genius6 engine is really Genius5, and it seems unlikely that buyer's of the MCG6 product will get the Richard Lang improvement, should it ever come out, except as an upgrade, which seems wrong to me, as we bought this program under the impression that the engine was new and improved). The Millenium group does not include other free engines (like Chess Base does with Fritz5), with the initial product - You have to figure out Winboard. And the powerfull engines you can get (Zarkov, Nimzo, W-Chess, etc.), are all more expensive individually then the seperate Chess Base engines. (Some of which are the same names). Conclusions: Rebel is a very competive product with a company philosophy of listening to the customer and improving the product at all times, with out unduly raising the price. Millenium Chess Genius has so far 'dropped the ball' as far as (successful), marketing is concerned. Sure, they'll sell a lot of units (well, compared to what?), but no where as much as the Chess Base company will. (and probably many other companies). Right now, Chess Base products rule as far as features, price, and just about any other factor of competition is concerned. (Except perhaps against the giant company that markets CM6000, which is not the same kind of product as I'm comparing here). I hope this is a good thing. mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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