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Subject: Deep Sjeng comments

Author: Chris Kantack

Date: 19:47:56 06/30/03


Several weeks ago I received a free copy of Deep Sjeng for evaluation.   The
company that sent me Deep Sjeng was hoping I'd like it and write a postive
review of the product that they could post on their web site.

My current "desktop computer program" is ChessMaster 6000.   I was looking
forward to trying out Deep Sjeng as ChessMaster 6000 does not run in the newer
32 bit only OS environments (Windows 2000, XP, and beyond).

Now, Deep Sjeng has a very fast and powerful engine.  I'll give it that.   But
in all other areas, I think it sucks big time.  Currently I'm running version
1.5 but I'll be damned if I can find any documentation on what the engine
parameters mean.  Also, the help files used to work.  Now they don't even though
the help files that are supposedly missing are in their proper and original
locations.

ChessMaster 6000 has gobs of tutorials, puzzles, annotated games, verbal
analyses, etc.   You won't find any of that with Deep Sjeng.

In terms of a user-friendly interface, features, and everything else, I'd pick
my old ChessMaster 6000 any day of the week over Deep Sjeng.

(Anybody out their disagree with me?   Let me know why!)

Thanks,

Chris Kantack
http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm



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