Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:46:20 04/07/98
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On April 07, 1998 at 19:51:50, Moritz Berger wrote: >On April 07, 1998 at 18:21:46, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>by the way, did you play CSTAL wiht the new engine against G5 or with >>the Paris version? >>Cheers >>Fernando > >I tested about 30-40 different CST versions, including the Paris >versions (plural!) and both version that were released afterwards. I >didn't test all versions against Genius, but it was the most reliable >nightmare for CST; even the version which got 50% vs. Rebel 8 lost >horrible vs. Genius 5. > >I agree that CST is nice to play against, simply because it plays >different and most of the time not as boring as the rest of the pack. >But didn't you yourself advocate M-Chess for that purpose ;-) ? > Well, yes; I always will advocate a program that plays nice, entertaining games. Fernando >Moritz > >P.S.: > >some things I like about CST > >1. HUGE book - largest commercial book of any program I own and CST >plays mostly well enough with it >2. Wildly customizable - I bet nobody understands all those parameters >3. optional detailed search protocol (similar to Crafty's logfiles) >4. Auto232 support >5. sufficient database capabilities >6. Nice 3D board, decent 2D board >7. couple of test suites included >8. Display of many search parameters on screen >9. ELO handicap levels >10. Decent time control options, including Fischer increment etc. >11. It's pretty cheap >12. Multiple lines in a gamescore are possible > >what I don't like about it > >1. Some parts of the user interface need improvement (e.g. database >search) >2. Some rather serious engine bugs spoil the results vs. computers and >humans >3. Support from Oxford Softworks is not great >4. It's a DOS program, incompatible with Windows NT 4 >5. Doesn't work with the TASC smartboard
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