Author: Michael Fuhrmann
Date: 14:54:36 07/05/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 14:45:19, Dann Corbit 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. > >Chessmaster is definitely one of the strongest engines around. It is incredibly >inexpensive. Personally, I like many of the other chess engines better, but I >can definitely see the appeal of Chessmaster. > >making decisions as to "what is for serious players" can only be done by the >serious players themselves. Chessmaster definitely does some things better than >other chess engines. > >It has an ugly interface, does not connect to FICS and ICC and it does not >process EPD in batches, so it is not all that appealing for me. > >Have you ever tried playing against it? I found the experience quite >humilating. I have never felt humilated by any other chess engine. (Beaten >quite regularly, but that's not the same thing). Curious to know: how is the "humiliation" when being beaten by CM different from whatever you feel when being beaten regularly by Crafty, Fritz, et al?
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