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Subject: Re: Genius7

Author: Mike S.

Date: 17:21:55 05/09/03

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On May 09, 2003 at 19:35:49, Lyn Harper wrote:

>(...) But I need to know
>that it's not another false alarm like Genius6, you remember, the one that was >a re-release of Genius5 with different startup graphics.

If you compare Manfred Meiler's test results (100 pos), you can spot some small
differnces between Genius 7 and 6.5 of Nov. 2000 - but not many. See ranks 136
and 139 in the WM-Test:

http://www.computerschach.de/test/WM-Test%20(100pos).zip

Btw. the Geniuses rank far behind most freeware engines tested there.

Since you have Genius 5 already, you could consider Shredder 7.SE instead, if
you don't have Fritz 8 with the new GUI version yet, ~30 $/€ should be the price
for this special edition (i.e. Niggemann). It doesn't include the classic GUI
and all of the engine settings though. But it's certainly the better buy, in my
opinion.

Genius 7 may be recommandable still though, for people who don't know the
program yet, since it's the most up-to-date version of a very famous program
(many times World Champion), which no collection should miss. Also, the GUI is
quite feature rich, incl. Auto-232.

I have Genius 5 too; what kind of problems occur in XP? (I still use W98/ME)

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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