Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 18:48:51 11/08/00
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<snip> Because, as you know, there are many forms of "chess," other than playing games of chess, which you can enjoy. [For example, creation and testing of chess engines.] A survey here some time ago asked the club membership to say what they used their programs for. One of the most popular uses was "for analysis." Exactly what "analysis" was was not examined, so different people may have been doing different things and still calling it "analysis." I enjoy using chess engines as one of my tools to develop new opening lines well into the middlegame [and even to create complete opening repertoires] which are not in existing opening books. This requires quite a bit of independent research, a pursuit which I find to be extremely satisfying and rewarding, perhaps akin to the "high" a programmer probably feels when his "baby" wins a competition against other chess engines. Different engines can give different answers. CMX000 is just another choice, but it amounts to another "tool" in your chess software "toolbox." Expand your horizons! Purchase 50 different chess engines! Why not? Well, there is a limit to the amount of time that you can devote to playing with or using them. Nevertheless, having a huge "toolbox" cannot hurt, assuming you can come up with the money. Also, the chances are that most of the members of this club already have at least fifty programs. You wouldn't wish to be different from the rest, would you? Personally, I never have learned to live with CM's user interface. I hate it! So, I threw my upgrade offer into file 13. This should not be taken as a negative for ChessMaster software, however, since it is a matter of personal preference and I may be a radical wierdo. As an old-timer, I have become set in my ways and have fallen in love with the Fritz interface. Maybe, someday, it will be possible to purchase a CM module as an alternative engine to go into the Fritz or the Chessbase database software packages.
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