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Subject: Re: Hoyle Majestic Chess : Head-To-Head with ChessMaster???

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:51:59 07/10/03

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On July 10, 2003 at 16:43:35, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>On July 10, 2003 at 16:03:12, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On July 10, 2003 at 15:53:10, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>>>So who are the member of the original ChessMaster team?  Maybe John Merlino
>>>>>knows?
>>>>
>>>>Sure I would know, since I'm one of them.... :-)
>>>
>>>Interesting!!!  So you are involved with the Majestic Chess project?  So what is
>>>the engine in this product?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Steve
>>
>>Yes, I am one of several ex-Chessmaster developers involved in this product.
>>
>>The engine is by David Kittinger, the programmer of the engine in the original
>>Chessmaster.
>>
>I thought that the engine in the original Chessmaster was The King. I suppose
>you know the strength of this engine. Do you believe (honestly) is at the same
>level with the todays top engines (F8/S7.04/TK323/J8/CT8/R12...) or lower?

CM2k was Kittinger, I think.
CM2100 was somebody else, I think.
CM3k was Kittinger, I'm sure.
CM4k and up were The King (Johan de Koenig, sp?) I'm sure

Nice to see Kittinger "back in the game" so to speak.

-Tom



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