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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