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Subject: Re: SSDF CM8000-Deep Fritz: 0 - 2 Now: 1 - 7

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 18:39:07 03/29/01

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On March 29, 2001 at 11:08:04, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>On March 29, 2001 at 10:30:30, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On March 29, 2001 at 01:18:32, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>
>>>Where are now all CM enthusiasts?! What do they say? Pichard?
>>>
>>>Jouni
>>
>>I only recently bought my CM8000, and I was strongly assured that it is
>>certainly clearly stronger than CM6000, and with no serious bugs etc.
>>  I really begin to regret it, and would like to know if I can get a refund on
>>it. I havn't set it up yet.
>>  Or is it really true that it is the strongest CM so far, and no serious bugs?
>>(and that the complainers were not setting it up right or something)?
>>Honest answers and help will really be appreciated.
>>S.Taylor
>
>For some reason CM8 have stopped working on my cpu (all other progs run
>flawlessly) but when it did run on my cpu it was so full of bugs, that i had to
>laugh. As to the strenght of CM8, it did not win any tounaments against winboard
>engines, it was chrushed by Gandalf only winning few games out of about 80 (in
>serious tournament games). I could beat it, and the books are poor.
>it has no book.lrn to compensate for that, it has no endgame support and to my
>experience the strongest hash setting is still 1MB lol
>If by some miracle i could make it run again on my cpu i would not use it.
>
>Regards
>Jonas
 So what can I do? I really wouldn't even bother with it if It is like this. I
will probably just leave it unopened, so perhaps I can get my money back?
S.Taylor



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