Author: Mike S.
Date: 14:38:47 12/20/01
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On December 20, 2001 at 06:54:21, Georg Langrath wrote: >The death of computerchess. > >(...) 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. Probably analysis as a way to use chess programs is still underestimated. I think many chessplayers do this which are not in the computer chess scene. Strong club players which play in european chess leagues or open tournaments in the US, all international players, etc. I think they are not so much interested to know, or have, all chess programs and advanced engine features, -matches etc. but they focus more on chess itself. For example, if they examine a position they do not know the solution beforehand (and are not so interested in comparing which engine solves faster), but they want suggestions, and eventually acknowledgements or refutations to their own moves, plans and ideas in that position. Thats why improving engines will always be interesting and important, no matter if they are 2500, 2900 or 3900 elo. The better engines will find difficult things earlier (which saves time during the analysis), and will more often show interesting ideas or at least short term plans more often than less strong engines (which may be something older version don't find even with more time). OTOH it may be a useful idea to skip a version number then and when. I'm doing this and can live with it. For example, I've skipped Fritz 6. Nobody noticed. :o) Also, I don't buy the complete range of programs anymore, for several reasons. Sooner or later I think everbody notices that he uses only one or two programs regularly (and maybe a third one occasionally) but not more anyway. - Except you are new to the scene, or a really enthusiastic collector which I was only for a limited period of time. Regards, M.Scheidl
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