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Subject: Re: If strength is what you are looking for, Crafty is FREE !

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 11:18:14 11/11/00

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On November 10, 2000 at 18:22:25, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On November 10, 2000 at 12:05:41, pavel wrote:
>
>>On November 10, 2000 at 11:58:00, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Probably the Chessmaster Series has been so sucessfully due to the enormous
>>>features that it offer beside strength. Just remember that you are not just
>>>buying a chess program that can beat you mercifully every time you play against
>>>it, you are also looking for a chess program that can satisfy your curiosity
>>>such as creating your own personality by changing parameters, in another word
>>>a program which allow you to play around and learn with it, not just to be
>>>beating by it. But again unless you are rated over > 2450 the new CM8000 should
>>>be able to give you more than a battle, it would also give you a nice present
>>>for Christmas.
>>
>>LOL are you a salesperson working for CM?
>>
>>NO
>>
>>Pichard.
>>
>>why are you even refering to this post?
>>pavs.
>
>To make my point much clear, will this post clear any doubts from you?
>
>PS: Sorry Christophe, but your program has a lot of features too, and it is one
>of the strongest program available on the market. But strength is not the only
>reason to upgrade a program as I mentioned earlier. If this would be the case
>most people should simple download Crafty 17.14 for FREE.
>
>Pichard.
>
>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?137802



THE SSDF RATING LIST 2000-10-27

 1 Fritz 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz           2630   26   -25   775   67%  2505
 2 Junior 6.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2592   23   -23   971   65%  2481
 3 Chess Tiger 12.0 DOS 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2573   28   -27   651   62%  2484
 5 Fritz 5.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2552   29   -28   622   61%  2473
 6 Nimzo 7.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2549   26   -25   751   60%  2475
 7 Gandalf 4.32f  128MB K6-2 450           2545   37   -37   353   54%  2515
 8 Hiarcs 7.01  128MB K6-2 450 MHz         2535   55   -53   169   55%  2499
 9 Hiarcs 7.32  128MB K6-2 450 MHz         2530   29   -28   597   59%  2467
10 SOS  128MB  K6-2 450 MHz                2526   23   -23   893   53%  2503
11 Junior 5.0  128MB K6-2 450 MHz          2523   28   -27   655   57%  2470
12 Goliath Light  128MB K6-2 450 MHz       2497   31   -31   505   45%  2530
13 Nimzo 99  128MB K6-2 450 MHz            2494   28   -27   644   52%  2477
14 Crafty 17.07/CB 128MB K6-2 450 MHz      2492   26   -26   700   50%  2495


Crafty 17.07 is approx. 138 elo points under Fritz6
Crafty 17.07 is approx. 100 elo points under Junior6
Crafty 17.07 is approx.  81 elo points under Chess Tiger 12


Crafty is free, but is far from the top programs strength.

If you want to argue about the fact that Crafty 17.07 is not the latest version,
please remember that Fritz6, Junior6 and Chess Tiger 12 are the programs of LAST
YEAR.



    Christophe



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