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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:17:59 07/05/00

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On July 05, 2000 at 17:59:23, Dann Corbit wrote:
>On July 05, 2000 at 17:54:36, Michael Fuhrmann wrote:
[snip]
>>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.

I went to look for the game in question, but it has been deleted.  I sent a copy
of it to Komputer Korner on August 11, 1998, but I only have the reply message
but not the one I sent.  So I can only say that (fortunately) the game score has
been lost to posterity.



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