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Subject: Re: Much ado about nothing

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 11:04:49 09/11/98

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On September 11, 1998 at 04:14:32, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>Without seeing it, without testing it, I predict that
>you will never see the slightest difference in playing
>strength. Play 100 games against CM 5000 or 5500,
>and play another 100 games, and the results will be
>different a little bit with each set of games.
>And you will get no clear picture, I am sure,
>even if you play 10 000 games. Testing this
>is a waste of time! (With one exception, of course:
>in case they blundered and built a major bug in it, then
>this would be different.)

CM5K is a funny product.  It is the big mass market program in the US.  Playing
strength wouldn't be very important for it, I think that if it was remotely
competitive, and had good features and a good tutorial, it would sell almost
exactly the same number of units than if it had the absolute best engine.

bruce



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