Author: Kevin Mulloy
Date: 18:55:16 10/31/98
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On October 31, 1998 at 01:35:51, Komputer Korner wrote: >On October 30, 1998 at 23:23:51, Kevin Mulloy wrote: > >>Dear Friends at CCC, >> I just read several of the postings concerning Chessmaster 6000. I recently >>purchased a copy of this program myself and I am very impressed. I have >>purchased every program in this line since Chessmaster 2100 and I believe that >>"Mindscape" (formerly known as the "Software Toolworks") has produced another >>fantastic product. I found some bugs that were annoying in 5500, fixed in 6000. >> For example: go into CM 5000 or 5500 and design your own custom board with >>black and white squares. Then, select the large red and beige staunton >>pieces to add to the board -- you'll notice that the pieces look like they are >>covered with spider webs whenever a piece is placed on a white square. I made a >>custom board set up as soon as I had the 6000 out of the box to see if this had >>in fact been fixed. They did not disappoint me! To me I feel that CM 6000 >>fills a definate niche. It is true that many of the advanced players will not >>learn too much from this program, but everyone from beginner to expert class >>will find more chess then they will ever beat! Picking a personality with a >>face attached to it was also a nice touch -- not a serious tool, but a fun one! >>I have made a rather extensive collection of professional software and all of >>them -- including CM6000 -- can beat me quite easily in anything that resembles >>a speed game or a championship game. I have some high level draws and some wins >>at Postal game speeds against these machines. But what I have most of all is a >>grand collection of nearly a dozen different teachers (I speak most of the >>professional programs)that can play at the Master level. That gives me a chance >>to learn about what each opponent can do and what the games can teach me. I >>have used these tools at the local elementary school as well as at the county >>College. My opinion? I am greatful for the work that guys like Marty Hirsch >>has contributed to my enjoyment of playing chess. Keep up the good work, guys >>-- I'll keep buying and learning until I can beat one of the top programs at >>tournament time controles, or I run out of money, or I die an ever improving >>player. Again, Thanks for the work Trapper > >What has Marty Hirsch have to do with CM6000? > >-- >Komputer Korner Dear Komputer Korner, My most sincere apologies for the confusion that I may have caused by listing Marty Hirsh as my only example of a program writer. If you re-read my post, you can see that I was only using Marty as one example of the many good (excellent!!) chess programers (at least, that was my intent). I don't want to see any of these guys stop writing and improving their respective chess programs! I don't believe that Mr. Hirsch has anything to do with CM 6000. He is -- of course -- the man responsible for bringing us the excellent M-Chess program. My intent was to thank the programers of all of the excellent programs out there that I have used -- M-Chess is just currently my personal favorite. To use Marty's name alone where I did may have caused some confusion. If I can "takeback" that one move, I would like to thank: Mindscape, for CM 6000 -- Marty Hirsch, for M-Chess, Richard Lang for ChessGenius, Mark Uniacke & David Hatchett for Hiarcs, The boys over at ChessBase (names unknown to me) for Fritz. Convekta Ltd. for Chess Assistant and finally, a special thanks to Mike Leahy and FM Chuck Schulien at BOOKUP for the program that has helped me to learn more about playing better chess than any other program. Counting all of the upgrades from one program to the next, I have more than a dozen of these programs and all of them get better with each upgrade. I am certain that the other professional programs that you gentlemen write about every day are wonderful programs and I hope to purchase a couple more of the top programs as soon as I can. I purchase a lot of this software when I can afford it! Many thanks to you guys that make this site possible -- Thanks for reading, Kevin Mulloy
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