Author: Chris Kantack
Date: 18:29:15 07/03/03
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On July 01, 2003 at 21:40:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 01, 2003 at 08:48:10, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: > >>My two cents: The Chessmaster GUI annoys me. It has always been that way. What >>a shame, especially with the "new" 3.23 King engine in CM9k. On the other hand >>in Deep Sjeng you get a full-featured program with many options. Besides that, >>I believe that Deep Sjeng 1.5 is one of the best tacticians around and its >>endgame has improved to that point that it will be very highly rated on the next >>SSDF list. >> >>And, if you have an SMP compliant machine, you will be more than happy with Deep >>Sjeng, which is not the case with CM at all. >> >>Not to mention the Internet servers, standard format endgame tablebases etc, all >>offered by DS. >> >>Your infelicitous "review", or point of view if you wish, are badly written and >>a bit offensive (to use the wording you used one must be personally affected. >>Why?). That was not a review! Just a posting to elicit some feedback. >> >>Summary: if you care for bells and whistles go for CM; if you want a very strong >>engine with excellent features and great support pick Deep Sjeng. But to like >>Deep Sjeng you have to be a strong player first, and not pay attention to >>meaningless trinkets... > >Comparision of an add-on chess engine with ChessMaster is almost meaningless. >They are completely different products. > >Compare DeepSjeng (rather) with something like Gandalf, Ruffian, or Nimzo. > >The ChessMaster product is nice for what it does. I hate the 3-D stuff, but I >can customize that away. If I want to play online, I will use Winboard. And I >can even use TheKing engine to play through Winboard if I choose. That does not >mean that I don't like CM or that CM is less valuable than Winboard. > >I have a bazillion free engines and I like all of them. When I am tired of >getting blasted by Crafty, I will take my revenge against a weak sibling like >Golem or ChadsChess. I have Rebel, Hiarcs, Chess Tiger and Bookup. I like all >of them. I have Chess Assistant and I love it, but I still fool around with >SCID a lot. > >In short, it's an embarassment of riches. I can't think of any chess software >product that rankled me (except for one, and that was my own fault, so I won't >mention it). Thank you very much. Now this is the kind of feedback I was looking for! Much appreciated. Chris
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