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Subject: Re: CM6000 Just Because it's Cheap, is Not Weak

Author: Detlef Pordzik

Date: 18:45:06 12/03/98

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On December 03, 1998 at 19:38:03, Komputer Korner wrote:

>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
>--
>Komputer Korner

Where there's lots of light, there's lots of shadow, so to say, KK - ain't that
true ?
I heard them say, it took CB several versions from 1.1 to 7 - to become a really
great product......why not CM ?
Name me better and more compentent tutors than the ones of Christiansen,
Seirawan - 4 GM's, 3 IM's and a FIDE master, to say it once.
And I've been told - as I'm a little steady in this scene, that Larry Kaufmann
is still an expert on book composing -
talkin' bout the engine - no doubts, eh ?
And the 2 d boards ( the very 1st time....) and the database functions have
improved ALOT,
so, why not spot this - positive, once in a while, rahter than

"are the lack of certain critical features and
>the many bugs in the tutorials."

I feel this as kinda single sighted and missleading.

c/u

ELVIS



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