Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 06:23:41 11/05/98
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On November 05, 1998 at 08:47:41, Tony Schleizer wrote: >Now, what I don't like. First, the "Practice and Opening" feature >is less than worthless. The CM5000 went overboard with this >feature b/c there were too many variations given within >each opening. Thus, if I just wanted to practice the QGD, >main line, I had to choose among a whole host of sub-variations >of the main line. The CM6000 has gone the other way in that >there are no lines. For example, I wanted to practice the Caro-Kann. >I played e4 c6, d4 d5 and got a msg like "You have successfully >completed the Caro-Kann Defense." Gee, that's helpful. I knew >that much after playing chess for a week. To make it worse, >the openings to choose from are odd stuff that you'll almost >never encounter. Even thought the openings are not great, I do like the unusual openings, Many a times I have played and gone with some more unusual openings and they seemed to confuse the opponent, lets face it it is unlikely that most people will ever play an IM or GM or let alone a really good player, they will play their freinds, and most of them only ever learn if they are interested in chess at all one or two openings, so when you confront then with something unusual it can throw them. whats wrong with variety. Maybe if all the people aspiring to be great chess players learned more lesser played openings and styles we would see allot more great games of chess of they pulled them off. >I think that the Dunst Opening (1. Nc3) and >a bunch of other strange things are among your choices, but >the QGD is not. The second complaint that I have is with >it's opening book. When you create a player, you have a choice >of opening books to choose from, e.g. Kasparov will play >with the Kasparov.obk. The problem is that you don't know >what lines are in the opening books and the books don't >seem to really fit the players personalities, and they >seem to be fairly shallow. In your chess shortcuts in your menu, you will see an option for opening book editor, using that you can see and change the opening books for any of the characters or add your own. >For example, I was playing >White against the Lasker personality and the game went: >e4 e5, f4 exf4, Nf3. At this point the Lasker personality >went into a long think. So, it seems that Lasker was out >of book at move 3 of the KGA? Finally, my third gripe. >In the CM5500 I really liked the tutorials b/c they >were informative and I could pick a specfic topic >to review, e.g. isolated pawns. In the >CM6000, I don't know if I like the tutorials b/c I cannot >get to the information which I might find useful, b/c you cannot >pick a specfic topic. You have to go thru all the tutorial or >nothing and at the beginning of the tutorials there is a lot >that I am not willing to sit thru. >Tony I think the tutorials apart from the mistakes, is pretty good, lets face it you are buying one of the cheapest chess programs which I would say is in the top three in strength, you might hear different but that is my view, I think for what you pay for you get plenty, there are some problems which I hear they will be looking into, but I think all round either way it is a great program, and if you want an elo ranking to be accurate, then really the only choice is to play competitions for real. So you should only take that ranking part with a grain of salt I have the same gripes as you did, I have the other strong programs on the market, and I can even get my CM6000 chess board to look the same as those boards and peices in other stronger programs, so its looks the same. But for price and what you get for your money, its great
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