Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:58:53 11/09/98
Hi all: In http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/ChessPartner4.htm you can get Schahmaster, sucesor of L-Chess. Is just another candidate to make a dent in our wallets and really you wonder when the day will come when no more engines and programs will be offered to you. This program is delivered as a demo for 30 days so you do not risk a cent trying it for a time, as I did. Now, which is the reason I talk about it here? It is a monster? Stronger than many? The better GUI of the universe? Barbara streisand sing the moves and Claudia Shiffer show his ass if you mate the engine? It brings a tutorial that take you from your current condition as C player and after 10 games you have became a GM? Nope. In fact is has not the better gui of the market, his 3-d board remember the nostagy of CGC screen of older days, the voice feature is like a robot fitted to how robots were thought in the age of the first "Star Trek" cycle, etc, etc, but it have the most important feature of all, one that every player and fan desires from time ago, that kind of forbiden desire of which we cannot or we do not dare to talk and surely forgotten by programmers: the engine is beatable without being openly stripped. Who loves to win a race competing againts crippled people? Around 2250 Elo according his programmers, around 2200 according my guts, Schasmaster is a nice program because is strong enough to give you a fight and in fact to defeat you many times, but not so awfully strong as to push you on the ropes from move 12, as top programs. Even more, is weak enough to be defeated by you at least one time in three. Is'n wonderful? Fernando
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