Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 16:38:03 12/03/98
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On December 03, 1998 at 19:13:41, Micheal Cummings wrote: >I get the impression that because CM6000 is very cheap to buy then people do not >consider it to be very strong. > >Well with the amount of money that the Chessmaster programs pull in, I think >that the guy who programs the kings engine would also be pulling in allot of >money, and thus would have the resources to make such a strong engine even >stronger. > >CM6000 is marketed for the mass public, and because it does not have an >autoplayer and cannot play against other programs unsupervised, that alot of >people dismiss CM6K and for that matter the versions before, because of the lack >of results against other programs. > >And I have already started to see that CM6K has been pulling in some very good >results in tournaments already, and all I hear, is "what a suprise". Anyone who >has been using Chessmaster since CM5000, knows that it is very strong. > >Well I hope CM6K does beat the other programs if anyone out there will play it >manually (too SSDF members), just to shut up people who keep making comments >that this cheap software program, which sells more than any other chess program >100 times over. Cannot be strong. > >And to Mindscape, put in a damn autoplayer so you can shut all these people up >and kick their sorry butt. No one has said that CM6000 is weak. In fact CM5500 will win the KK Kup 2. The latest engine King 3.0 recently won the strong Dutch computer championship probably the strongest national computer chess championship still going. The disadvantages with CM6000.001 are the lack of certain critical features and the many bugs in the tutorials. -- Komputer Korner
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