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Subject: Re: If your rating is less < 2300 you really don't need to

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 20:44:48 11/08/00

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With that attitude, why get ANY chess program?

JW

On November 08, 2000 at 20:22:37, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On November 08, 2000 at 19:08:40, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>To CM followers:
>>Why should I? Yesterday I played a game against CM6000, my current crop. It
>>played running in my faster machine, a relatively modest one for actual
>>standards: 500 Mhz. And I was crushed without pity. BTW, a funny thing happened:
>>I had forgotten that CM measured the score in the way of giving + scores to
>>white and - scores to black, ever, no matter the player, so when I saw -0.56 or
>>so I thought I was winning because I had white. That is a sign of how equal the
>>position was in order for me to believe such a thing. And then, on a sudden,
>>from the blue, he stabbed me and killed me in just a row of 5 or 6 moves.
>>So, I do not need a more powerful engine.
>>Now, then, what other reason I have to purchase it?
>>Database? I do not care. Las time I studied a game played by other guys was in
>>1957.
>>¿Pandolfini or Waitzkin course perhaps?
>>What CM8000 has that CM6000 does not and that deserves the 30 bucks or so,
>>without counting shipping and mail expenses?
>>Every and each answer will be appreciated.
>>Fernando



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