Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 12:17:26 07/28/00
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> The question which program is best may be dependent in the > time control. What is the hardware and time control of your games? I play on either Celeron 400Mhz or another Celeron 466Mhz, 64Mb for hash tables (on machines with 128Mb total RAM). Depending on how much time I have, most of the time I set programs to 15 or 30 seconds average per move (my time is usually similar to program's although I don't pay attention to how long I think on a move). I also use infinite time control or analysis mode when I occasionally look through a database game. In the first weeks of trying out a program I also play a few tournament level games. As to using programs one version back from their current ones, from games and results I have seen, it doesn't seem it would change very much in terms of playing pleasure or general impression. I still think a loss to CM, Fritz or Junior would leave the usual after-taste of a 'cheap shot'. Over the almost two decades, there were only few times where going to the new version or a new program brought something really new. The appearance of Super Constelation, AI chess (later M-Chess), Rebel 8 and Hiarcs 6/7 are the few cases where after the first game I thought 'hey, this is something interesting and new.' The rest of upgrades or tries 'new' programs over years didn't bring a sense of something essentially new, ahead of the pack.
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