Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 20:23:22 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 21:04:28, Amicitia Stone wrote: >On November 15, 2000 at 18:52:04, Michael Cummings wrote: > >>Well I did not buy it, but a friend did, so I spent a bit of time playing around >>with it. It is pretty nice to look at, but there are some things that are just >>plain too flashy and annoys me, but I will accept it. >> >>The installation seemed pretty strait forward this time on his system, nothing >>seems to go wrong like last time. >> >>He does have a PIII 800 and some of the loading times for a few things took a >>while. Like opening the database was pretty slow. Also opening the program >>seemed to take a very long time. About 30 seconds, which to me is unacceptable, >>even though it is reading just about everything off the hard drive, since >>everything else on his system runs like lightning, I again say it is not good. >> >>When I selected a personality, half way through a 5 minute game the program just >>froze, did not crash the system, but I still had to close that prograzm down, >>only to load it up again and freeze when starting a new game, the only thing to >>fix this was a reboot, and I did not play another game to see if it happened >>again. >> >>I was first excited, then the joy lessened with the crashes. But I am really >>only worried about the engine, and if I can play that then all the bells and >>whistles I can do without. >> >>Which makes me now want to push for the king engine to be avaiable to put into >>other programs, where as in the past I would have stuck by chessmaster. >> >>So my verdict for my first impressions, is that I think it is allright for the >>masses, as long as the king engine can smash other programs then I will continue >>to support it, even though I find it very buggy still (but whats new) The >>interface I can live with and there are improvements which I like. >> >>I will not blow the horn for this program yet, but it does have potential, I >>will look into it more and wait to see if there are any problems before I dish >>out some money for it. Maybe wait for a patch (if there ever will be one) >> >>I give the program 6/10 (but it is rising the further I look into it) > >Hmmm, >I got chessmater and I have none of the problems that you do. >1) It loads normally (Takes about 5sec P3 450) Everything is on the hard drive. >2) I haven't had 1 crash what-so-ever (using Win98) >3) Like you, I enjoy teh interface, always have with chessmaster. Looks great. >4) Good winboard support. That's a plus. >5) The King engine seems super strong. More testing needs to be done on my part. >6) the database takes about 3 seconds to load. Very fast for me. >6) I like it over all. > >rating: 8.5/10 :) Well Thats the things with bugs, some people get them others don't. If everyone was getting the problems I mentioned, then I would seriously question them for releasing the program. I am not rubbishing the program by any means, just mentioning a few problems
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