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Subject: Re: Is there something faster than chessmaster in finding checkmates?

Author: Steve Maughan

Date: 13:03:54 05/22/00

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Blass,

>The best opportunity to improve is for bad programs and not for good programs.

Sure!  I was refering to the top programs Fritz, Junior, Rebel etc

>I do not expect the king 3 to be for chessmaster because chessmaster do not
>want the best engine(they did not do it in chessmaster7000 so I have no reason
>to believe that they will do it in chessmaster8000).

They (John Merlino?!) have stated that CM8000 will contain the latest De Konnig
engine!  I think they have signed a five year deal.

>I also do not know if the king3 is better than previous versions (there were
>cases when new versions were weaker)

Of course!

>I guess that the new king engine will always be a private program because it
>seems that the programmer is not interested in doing it commercial

I think there are legal issues as De Konnig was an employee of TASC at one stage
and hence much of the code is owned by TASC.

>I know that chessmaster6000 was best in the past but I wanted to know if one of
>the new programs(like Fritz6a) learned to be a better program in finding mates.
>I know that Fritz6a is the best in tactics based on Enrique's test suite and I
>wanted to know if it also can find faster mates in the middle game.
>
>I expect programs to improve and being better than chessmaster6000 in finding
>mates in the middle game is probably only a question of time.

I hope so too!!

Regards,

Steve Maughan



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