Author: ALI MIRAFZALI
Date: 20:56:31 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 Actually I agree with you.From other posts here ;it seems the thing does not handle pawn endgames too well.But the biggest upset relating to the program its the author who used to sign GCP here in CCC but now posts sometimes only in CTF His comments here were very rude...... The fact that Chessmaster is better goes without saying........
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