Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 20:33:24 10/29/98
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What you say is mostly true, but a serious chess player which there are many and I do not classify as only the ones FIDE says there are on their books. I still say even though CM6000 is a cosemtically great program with a reletively strong program, I have little doubt that serious chess players will look at it, play a few games on it and then put it away in the draw, only to be taken out if kids come over and want to play a nice game of chess on the computer. It is a mass market software package and nothing more. In the real chess world I do not consider it to be in my top 8 chess software packages, and I think some freeware programs would give CM6000 a big run for its money. If you like to play fun chess than Cm6000 is that program for you, otherwise I would not use it for anything else, Mindscape still have a long way to go with their database for it, like you said Databases are the future big time. I have CM6000 and Rebel 10 and Fritz 5, Both rebel and Fritz easily beat CM6000 in the games I played against it. I do not even think CM6000 is anywhere near the two other packages in playing strength, I could not even get it to draw, it was a humiliating to watch CM6000 in the end, need a better game ingine for it to be considered good in my view, and that is only in my view. Once again, nice program for the mass market but that is about it.
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