Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:59:23 07/05/00
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On July 05, 2000 at 17:54:36, Michael Fuhrmann wrote: >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? I almost always feel that I have my chances. I often will look over a game, and while licking my wounds I can say to myself, "Good grief! Look at this blunder I made here -- that's where I went off" or things of that nature. CM5500 actually pushed me back below my pawn line so that I lost all development and just simply thrashed me. Even though nobody was watching, I felt genuine embarrassment. It was like I was a two year old playing Kasparov. It chewed me up, spit me out, and picked its teeth with my spleen.
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