Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:36:36 09/12/98
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On September 12, 1998 at 11:38:26, Moritz Berger wrote: >On September 12, 1998 at 11:28:50, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi Elvis: >>You know, all the so called "Mass market" programs has been victims of the same >>oblivion. There is a kind of petulance in this issue from the part of us, >>freaks, writers for freaks, etc. It seems that if a program comes well packed, >>full of features and with a very good price, then at once it does not deserve a >>word from the wizards. Power Chess has a wonderful engine by Kittinger and >>rarely something has been written about it. CM has a wonderful engine as you >>say, but the same happens. Do you want to be considered a professional >>programmer? Then you must deliver an horrible package at 100 bucks or more; then >>you will be considered seriously... >>Fernando > >What makes other programs look "professional" in my eyes compared with >Chessmaster and Powerchess? > >Well, to begin with, other chess programs don't destroy your system setup if you >install them (as has been reported about PC and I have experienced myself with >CM 5000). Moritz, that happens ramdomly with any kind of programs depending of your configuration system. I have had problems with and witout professional programs and the inverse. >Other programs at least don't crash while I play against them - with "mass >market" programs this doesn't seem quite reliably to be the case. I have never suffered a crash with CM 5000 or 5500 >Other programs run fine under Windows NT and support PGN in a reasonable way. > >If playing strength were my concern, I would only be too happy to take any de >Koning or Kittinger engine any day. But they would have to satisfy at least a >minimum requirement of running without crashes for some hours and a few of the >"professional" bells and whistles of Fritz 5 or Rebel 10 ... > > >Moritz Of course there is ONE professional program with bells, Fritz, but that is all. Rebel is great but old fashioned in his GUI, not very funny beyond to just play a game or do any "professional" thing like to see the database. And you know very well that rebel has had problems in some contexts: I remember post here about what happens if you have 64 Mb Ram or more, also problems with some video cards. Any case, I don't want to discuss with you about this, to point shades or degrees, etc, just indicate some tendence to look with scarce interest what commercial programs offer for the buck. fernando
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