Author: Eric Gallula
Date: 03:49:02 03/01/01
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On March 01, 2001 at 06:34:09, Lin Harper wrote: >On March 01, 2001 at 01:03:33, Garry Evans wrote: > >> >>I am no longer a fan of Chessmaster, my testing say's that the new engine is >>much weaker than the previous version. I no longer see Brilliant Tal like >>attacks, or the ability to maintain the initiative which is a hallmark of >>Chessmaster's play, all that I see now is chessmaster losing, especially when >>playing against the tigers. I doubt if Chessmaster's Programmer even put any >>serious work into improving the engine. I believe they knew that just the >>mention of a new engine would bring more sales. I feel like a goffer and a Mark, >>they got me good with this one!! Well I guess from now on my chessmaster8000 >>will collect dust on my hardrive along with Mchess 8, Genius6, and Zarkov. > > Hi Garry. Are you using the patched version of CM8K? A match was > recently played CM8K vs Fritz6. Chessmaster won 7-3. It's not a > weak program, and it's great value for money, IMO. CM8K is the King program(Joan De Koning engine) which beat Valeri Salov at Oviedo tournament in Spain Few years ago;I made some tactical tests with CM,and I think CM is(may be the best) and to find Mat problems,CM is the BEST. Friendly, Eric
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