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Subject: "Old" does not mean "Bad"!!

Author: odell hall

Date: 00:23:26 11/30/98


Hi CCC

 I am writing this post because I percieve that there is blatant lack of respect
for older chess programs on the Chess computer message boards. I believe this
perception is completely unjustified! In fact when the whole question is
carefully examined I think one would find that the strength difference between
old and new programs are greatly exaggerated! What I am defining as old are the
programs that came out in say 93 and 94 which include Rebel6 Chessmaster 4000,
Genius3 Mchess4. Perhaps the "real" reason why ssdf does not test these older
programs on Pent mmx200 machines because it would show that there has actually
been very little improvement in chess software, thus very little reason to
upgrade to the newer programs. It would also show that most of us are simply
victims of Sales hype!



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