Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 17:35:09 05/23/00
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On May 23, 2000 at 13:37:30, John Merlino wrote: >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 If The King 3.x would be CM8000 engine, I will buy CM8000. Sugestion, feature "Infinite Analyses" or "3 Best Moves", very good for analyses. Paulo Soares, from Brazil
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