Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:46:18 01/27/02
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On January 26, 2002 at 23:58:25, Dana Turnmire wrote: >On January 26, 2002 at 16:52:01, walter irvin wrote: > >>just when you think you must have the latest version of your favorite chess >>program some thing like this happens .i dig up an old cm 4000 program and find >>that it hits just about as hard as any of the programs i got .which makes me >>wonder how much is due to program advances and how much is just plain hard ware >>speed up . im voteing that hardware speed up is whats really at work in computer >>chess advancement . > >The Chessmaster 4000 is the first version with the King engine in it. When it >came out it was so much stronger than Chessmaster 3000 it took everyone by >surprise. Up until CM4000 the program wasn't taken seriously by hardly anyone >for it wasn't even in the same class as the top programs. You are 100% correct. I remember this vividly. Also, CM4000 had a radically new GUI. I don't recall having seen anything, EVER, for Windows 3 that was as "different". The revolutionary GUI may have served somewhat to obscure the fact of the new, vastly-stronger engine. It was a fun time!
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