Author: Chessfun
Date: 22:45:15 11/15/00
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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) Where did you get the program?. It is available in Australia before Canada?. Still is not available here in either EB or Compucentre. Sarah.
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