Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 20:07:04 06/30/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 22:47:56, Chris Kantack wrote: >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 Just to get you prepared, this opinion will not be very popular :) Most of the people here are either a) programmers b) chess fanatics, and therefore are primarily concerned with the "very fast and powerful engine" part. That said, I bought CM6000 back in the day, and if someone came to me and asked for advice, I'd recommend CM9000. Despite its regrettable lack of SMP support, its very strong tactically and it has all the little goodies you talk about. anthony
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