Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 08:38:56 11/30/98
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I think that anyone who wishes to be objective in this matter would have to agree with you. Jay On November 30, 1998 at 03:23:26, odell hall wrote: >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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