Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 04:50:00 09/01/03
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On August 31, 2003 at 12:37:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Some -unknown to me- chess programs are offered in Amazon, like a Kasparov >something one and two or there other with indifferent names. Any of you knows >sth. at least about the Kasparov one? >My suspicion is: old engines and/or crap engines, but maybe... >Fernando The only way to crack these ones is through ingenuity in Web searching; usually the publisher can eventually be tracked down and, somewhere on their site, there will be a better description of their program than Amazon gives with the engine (and version) used. In my experience good but old programs tend to keep their name somewhere in the new name; for example, there are various incarnations of Fritz still around and "Virtual Chess 2" is precisely that. Anything else is invariably worthless and "celebrity" endorsements are barely worth bothering with; these days I think Kasparov would put his name on sausages if he had the chance ... Alastair
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