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Subject: Re: Better Chess Software

Author: Fred Smith

Date: 09:39:11 10/30/98

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On October 30, 1998 at 00:16:40, Mike Saavedra wrote:

>I found that CM6000 is quite strong, and a bit faster in beating my butt than
>CM5000. They both will destroy me though. The teaching features are very
>interesting, especially the Josh Waitkin annotated games. If they offered
>additional lectures as such I would certainly consider purchasing them. They are
>excellent. Their tutorials are not bad (KK sez there is lots of errors though).
>As far as how CM looks, that is a matter of opinion. Personally, I enjoy the
>clean board of Fritz, better than any or the boards and sets CM offers.
>I enjoy the personalities settings in CM, although I think that they are too
>inflated (my rating on CM is about 1700, about 400-450 points more than Fritz
>would rate me). If Fritz incorporated that feature to that degree, I would
>probably abandon CM. Chessmaster is an excellent value for the money though.
My question is just how strong is CM6000 compared to Fritz, Rebel, etc.?
I just received an offer in the mail to upgrade.



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