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Subject: Re: Decision time. Which program to buy?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:28:30 10/31/00

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On October 30, 2000 at 16:58:47, Daniel Chancey wrote:

>What to buy?   I'll probably have 4 or 5 choices.   Chessmaster 8000, Shredder
>5, Fritz 7, Rebel Century 3, or other.
>
>Chessmaster 8000 might be more like a learning program.  It stil has a small
>book and secondary time controls still not available.  Shredder 5 is the world
>computer champion.  Hope to learn more about this.  Rebel Century 3 is a strong
>positional computer.  Fritz 7 is a fighting one I believe.  Way too early to
>decide.
>
>As for my book,  I'll plan to put in 1 last update before the year is over.
>Also  (to Chessmaster fans)  I'll try to put in a few G/60 matches.
>
>Castle2000

Get the Rebel-11 package which offers most value at the moment, and if you can
afford, get also CM8000.
Fritz7 will be out next year and Shredder5 is too expensive.



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