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Subject: Re: Why is Chessmaster so popular in CCC?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:43:54 07/05/00

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On July 05, 2000 at 14:30:05, blass uri wrote:

>On July 05, 2000 at 14:22:04, Eran wrote:
>
>>Many chess lovers in CCC talk again and again about Chessmaster and
>>personalities. I don't own Chessmaster and I don't know why it is so popular in
>>CCC. Isn't it? Chessmaster is not for serious chess players.
>>
>>Eran
>
>Chessmaster can find mates faster than other programs.
>I saw cases when chessmaster could see mate in 15 in less than 1 second.
>
>Chessmaster was the leader of the ssdf list on p200MMX and it is one of the best
>programs and I believe that it was the best program one year ago.
>
>There are many options to change the parameters with chessmaster when there are
>almost no options to change with Fritz's engines.
>
>You can change the value of pieces and many positional factors in the evaluation
>of chessmaster when you cannot change the value of pieces with most chessbase
>engines and you cannot change parameters like mobility or passed pawn
>in most chess programs.
>
>Uri

All this and it doesn't cost much money.  I only have a very old CM, but I've
considered buying CM6000, but I seriously doubt that I will.  But I would say
it's a good buy for the money even though there's allot of features it's
missing.

Pete



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