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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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