Author: Peter Berger
Date: 10:55:41 10/24/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 10:51:58, Helmut Conrady wrote: >http://www.computerchess.com/news.html#19 > >Helmut Thanks for posting this interesting piece of news . I probably would never have thought of looking at the Millenium website as they don't change it very often . This is one of the threads that sometimes make me want to post something nasty : sure it was a link that contained also commercial hyperbole but well : this was an ad ! And it _did_ contain most interesting information IMHO . I also don't think that it is a very good idea for the moderators to throw additional oil in the fire . And why is it so important to tell the world that you don't want to pay 129.- DM for the package ? Big deal ! Who does force you ? What does the package contain then ? Shredder 5 , some new experimental two-minds-one-judge-Shredder ( that definitely sounds extremely interesting to me ) , the amateur world champion version of SOS , Nimzo2000 and 4 Nalimov CDs . If I am not completely mistaken a similar set of Nalimov CDs has recently been sold as "Endgame Turbo" for the price of a full-featured chessprogram by some other company . New features include full winboard support : I am really looking forward to be able to play against the Winboard gang with my favourite GUI . Well , everybody is free to form his own opinion but for me it is one of the two packages I will get for myself this year . Now Millenium are supposed to be the bad guys ( wasn't it Chessbase a year ago :-) ) ? " I don't want to pay their lawyers !" Oh , man ! And why is it so strange that Shredder 5 is supposed to be 100 ELO above Fritz6a ? This doesn't seem to be _that_ unlikely to me ( I don't talk about Fritz 7 here ) . OK , my post isn't any better than the ones I critized but maybe evens it out a little and it was nice to have my say , too :-) Back to business : a.) Anyone already seen this new double-headed Shredder ? This really sounds thrilling . b.) Anyone noticed that at last it is more or less officially confirmed that Genius is history ? Regards. pete PS : who is _no_ Millenium Beta tester :-))
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