Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 03:54:21 12/20/01
The death of computerchess. In older days every tablechess was a piece of art. You talked about the design and features as much as strength. Later came PC. Now you could talk about design and features of interfaces instead beside strength. Nowadays it seems as interfaces and new features are dying. Look at Fritz 7. It looks like Fritz 6 if I haven’t misunderstood. It has one big development, and that is communicating possibilities via Internet. And Century 4. I have it. Although I like the interface it is the same as in Century 3 in every detail. And it has some small new features. That means that the important thing about buying new PC-chess nowadays is that it perhaps is a little stronger. Often not more than as best 50 ELO. I am not a strong chessplayer, but strength isn’t a problem for most of us today. All programs are more than strong enough. Strength can be of importance in analyze, but for few of us that important, that you are willing to spend 60$ for an uncertain increase of perhaps 20 to 50 points. And ordinary people are less interested in strength than those in CCC. Perhaps there isn’t so much more to develop in features and design of interfaces more, but I think that this means that most people will loose their interest in buying new chessprograms. Anybody that agree? Georg
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