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Subject: Re: ChessMaster8000 so far: disapointing !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:10:11 12/31/00

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On December 31, 2000 at 09:27:25, Mike S. wrote:

>On December 31, 2000 at 08:48:00, James wrote:
>
>>Have to agree.  Possessing CM55, CM6K, CM7K, and CM8K, my ranking would be
>><strongest first> 55, 6K, 8K, and 7K.  Am still using CM5500 for internet play
>>for "obvious" reasons.
>
>There were rgcc postings about CM8K being beaten by CM5K, even with the older
>version on slower hardware. I couldn't quite believe this at first, but it seems
>to get acknowledged. On the other hand, aren't previous versions the first ones
>a new program is tested against, to see if it has improved?
>
>Is it possible nevertheless, that CM8K is still better than it's predecessors
>against the other programs, or i.e. positionally stronger (so that matches
>against older CM's are decided by pure tactics in favour for them)?

I do not believe in it.

I do not see why better positional knowledge is going to help against other
programs and not against older versions of chessmaster.

Uri



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