Author: Vicente Fernández
Date: 20:26:30 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. I have manually played 4 games between CM6000 an fritz 5.1, 60-60, on a k62-300 with 128 ram. Chessmaster 6000 leads 3 to 1, winning both games with black. Using the thinking lines window I can see that chessmaster gets a more accurate evaluation of the positions and, most important, "sees" drawbacks and mates before Fritz 5 does. Although the number of games played manually doesn´t count statistically, I can tell for sure that CM6000 is very, very strong, maybe the strongest... who knows? And, I agree with Mr. Cummings: cheap is not weak, and, surely, everybody would like to see an autoplayer on the new King version.
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