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Subject: Re: New member with Pentium 4 2.66GHZ 533FSB - Advice welcome

Author: Peter Stayne

Date: 10:31:01 07/05/03

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1gb is fine.
You would have had a lot more bang for your buck going AMD for chess programs.
CB8.0 & Powerbook 2003 will serve you well.
Fritz8 has probably the best evaluations of any engine, and is in the tops of
currently available engines. Will be great for analysis.
If you have a fast internet connection, you may regret getting the endgame turbo
package since you can download those for free (7gb total, so it certainly would
have been a long download.)

Sounds like you've got a good selection of Chessbase software, but I would add
Chessmaster 9000 into your shopping cart. If one of the reasons you're buying
all of this is to help your over-the-board play, there's a lot of value in the
CM9000 package for that.

Pete


On July 05, 2003 at 12:35:04, Richard Patterson wrote:

>Hello to all the members, I have been out of chess for about 16+ years and a
>great deal has changed in that time.  I am building the above computer for chess
>programs only and based on what I see in the message boards this may not have
>been the best idea. I will be adding 1gb of pc2100 ram with the option to go
>with 2gb of pc2100 ram? Is it worth the extra $100 or so to go with an
>additional 1gb of ram? I also purchased the CHESSBASE 8.0 package, fritz 8,
>fritz powerbook 2003 and fritz endgame turbo.
>
>Thanks
>
>Richard



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