Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo
Date: 21:51:00 10/29/98
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On October 29, 1998 at 23:33:24, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>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.
Hi,Michael
Did you try to play a game against it on different PCs?
also,I was wondering if you log in under Im the next Bobby fischer?
I ask this because, (I dont know why ) it seems to play at its Best.
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