Author: James Robertson
Date: 11:07:25 06/02/99
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On June 02, 1999 at 10:54:37, Tord Romstad wrote: >On June 02, 1999 at 04:38:38, Abhishek Roy wrote: > >>How the heck does a mass market program get up there at no.2 breathing down >>the neck of Fritz 5.32 and above Hiarcs 7. That too, before the much awaited >>new King engine (3.something if I am not mistaken) is released. >>Does this mean that despite all the utterly useless bells and whistles in >>CM6000 it still has the strongest engine? >>Hard to believe. > >Why? The King was one of the strongest programs long before it became the >engine of the chessmaster series. It was on the top of the SSDF list for >a very long time (one year? I don't remember precisely) before Genius 2.0 >appeared. Would you expect the engine to suddenly become much weaker >because it is released in a mass-market program? You are forgetting the horrible outrage voiced when CM6k appeared at the top. Dozens of posts dismissed CM6k saying the the SSDF could not possibly be correct and that it must be a combination of playing worse opponents (which doesn't make sense) and lack of games that caused it's high placing. They also said that it would drop dozens of points when more "real" games were played. This proved false, and CM6k has maintained it's high position. Fortunately, even though CM6k's rating stayed the same, the level of venom spouted about it didn't. :) James > >I agree about the utterly useless bells and whistles, by the way. The only >Chessmaster program I have bought is CM4K, which I disliked so intensely that >I quickly removed the program from my hard disc and decided never to buy >another version of Chessmaster. Fortunately, the King engine is also included >in TascBase... > >Tord
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