Author: Richard Patterson
Date: 10:37:02 07/05/03
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Pete, Thanks for the advice, I will look for Chessmaster 9000. My internet connection is Direcpc broadband wireless connection to the sky :) Upload is not respectable but the downloads are sweet. Richard On July 05, 2003 at 13:31:01, Peter Stayne wrote: >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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