Author: Pete Waring
Date: 08:06:56 12/24/03
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Both excellent ideas - I hope Chessbase is listening! On December 24, 2003 at 09:50:33, Mike Hood wrote: > >I agree. I think Chessbase should do the following: > >1) When buying a new engine, the old versions of the same product should be >included. (ie, Shredder 8 should include Shredder 7, Shredder 6, Shredder 5.32, >etc). This won't be much of a help for fanatics like me who buy every Chessbase >engine as soon as it's released, but it would be a bonus for >johnny-come-latelys. (Or maybe it would be a help, because all the Shredder >versions could be "refreshed" by inserting the same CD). > >2) CDs should include a variety of weaker engines that play anwhere between 1000 >and 1800 Elo as-is, without having to use the handicap levels. At the moment >only Crafty and Comet are included, but these can hardly be called "weak". The >free engine Turing would be a good start at the bottom end of the scale >(strength about 1000?) but there's a big gap up to Bam Bam, the next weakest >Chessbase engine at roughly 2100. (Sure, there are the handicap levels, but I >have the impression that when a strong engine is handicapped it just makes silly >mistakes. I want engines that play weakly without playing stupidly).
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