Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:53:22 11/01/00
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On October 31, 2000 at 17:50:20, Roy Brunjes wrote: >On October 31, 2000 at 12:35:20, Marc Davis wrote: > >>I know it's still early -- CM8000 isn't here yet -- but I'm planning for >>Christmas. Which should I get? >> >>I am a casual player, around 1400-1600, not a programmer. I enjoy playing >>against the various personalities in CM6000. I sometimes analyze my games to >>find my mistakes and I enjoy looking up different openings in the database to >>see how the experts played them. I have never tried a Fritz product. >> >>Assuming an upgrade to CM8000 is cheaper than a new Fritz 6, which should I >>choose, and why? > >If you like playing against various personalities (as in CM6000,7000,8000), then >Fritz offers less variety. Fritz 6 does not have personalities, but it can be >tweaked via an aggressiveness parameter (a number from -2 to +2 if my memory >serves me). This is a lot less customizable than CM 6000 however. IMHO, Fritz >6 is easier for me to analyze games with. As I recall, the CM series does NOT >offer an analysis mode where you just make moves and the program immediately >starts analysing the current position. Why they have not implemented this over >the years is a mystery to me. > >If you want both of those features, then perhaps Rebel 11.0 is the best of both >worlds. One possible objection you would have to that is the DOS interface, but >I actually like that interface as it is very full featured. It is not as >graphically pretty as a Fritz 6 or CM 6000 interface, but very useful and well >thought out all the same. I run Rebel almost every single day on my computers, >I rarely run CM 6000. This is largely due to reasons above -- analysis mode and >personalities both in one package. If DOS and Century 3.0 turn you off, then on >the same Rebel 11 CD is Tiger (and its cousin Gambit Tiger) both of which offer >GUIs (i.e. not DOS) and an analysis mode. The GUI takes a little getting used >to, but it works well and I now like it. When you first started using CM, you >had to get used to their GUI anyway, so ... > >Hopefully this helps you some, > >Roy Just to clarify, since we're talking about CM8000 and NOT CM6000, CM8000 will have an analysis mode. jm
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