Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:37:30 05/23/00
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On May 22, 2000 at 16:03:54, Steve Maughan wrote: >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 Steve is basically correct here, although I'm not exactly sure of all of the details, or the length of Johan's contract. However, I can pretty much guarantee that Chessmaster 8000 will have a version of The King 3.x. I have several other interesting items as well, which I am going to save for a little while and I can get a good amount of "spoilers" (for want of a better term) from the development team about any new features/content in CM8000. jm
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