Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 05:18:54 07/01/03
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On June 30, 2003 at 22:47:56, Chris Kantack wrote: Sounds like a vegetarian reviewing a grill restaurant ;-) Richard >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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