Author: Richard Pijl
Date: 12:14:28 07/04/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 21:46:54, Chris Kantack wrote: >On July 01, 2003 at 08:18:54, Richard Pijl wrote: > >>>Sounds like a vegetarian reviewing a grill restaurant ;-) >>Richard > >Richard, > >Feel free to post again when you have something useful to say! > Long version and translation of my post: There are several types of chess software and several types of users. ChessPartner (with Deep Sjeng or Chess Tiger) and ChessBase (Fritz, Junior, etc) focus on making the engine capabilities available to the users, for playing games, but also analyzing games/positions, engine-2-engine tournaments and so on. You can see this in the naming of the packages. You're buying Deep Sjeng, Fritz, Chess Tiger, or whatever, which are the engine names. The GUI is delivered with the engine. Chessmaster is different in that it provides a lot of functionality to the user. In some of the functions the engine doesn't play a role at all. Basically the engine is delivered with the GUI. That's probably why the package is called Chessmaster instead of The King ... I don't doubt the strength of the engine. I know it is very strong. But the product ChessMaster is really intended for another audience. And most of them probably don't even appreciate the strength of the engine as they're using one of the zillion weak personalities to play against anyway. So: If I want to play a game against a computer I use ChessMaster 9000. If I want to analyze a position, I use Junior 7 (ChessBase) or Arena and just load the engines (winboard or native) that I want, depending on what position I'm analyzing. If I play an engine tournament, I use Winboard with WBTM (as I only include winboard (capable) engines in my tournaments anyway) All those products really have their strongpoints. Attack them on their strong points. Not on the things we already know they are not supposed to do. If a vegetarian orders a vegetarian mail in a grill restaurant, he is bound to be disappointed with what menu he will be offered. That's the same with a meat-lover going to a vegetarian or a seafood restaurant. If you find yourself in the wrong restaurant, don't complain about quality of the menu but find yourself another restaurant that does serve your favourite food. Richard.
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