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

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 21:32:19 12/03/98

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

>You are right Elvis, as always. Read my latest review of it in the EN Passant
>magazine of the Chess Federation of Canada. They have a web site and will be
>glad to send you a copy of their magazine and they might even give it to you for
>free. (No promises though). In the review I detail the whole truth and nothing
>but the truth. I gave it a Komputer Korner Gold Medal for its value in features
>to non tournament players and for it’s engine strength  For the non-tournament
>player, it is a great bargain, no doubt about it.
>--
>Komputer Korner

So even though CM6000 has beaten in games all of the current programs of the
SSDF list you still do not consider it a tournament strength program. I suppose
being such a cheap program it fluked all those wins.

I still think you still feel because it is so cheap that it is a joke of a chess
program, only to be played by the mass public. Not by serious chess players.

Well maybe since it sells more than most of the other chess programs on the
market put together, that reason why it is so cheap, its because it sells so
well. Maybe if Fritz and Rebel, and Junior, which this program can easily match
it with was sold at the same low price, then they might sell more too.

But unless you are a struggling single programmer, like Amir and Ed and the
rest, then the big commercial boys can never produce something that will
compete. Even though they would have better resources behind them, than most.

Well I will be waiting for the day when CM6K has some results behind it, then
for playing a game of chess and analysing games. People will then decide to buy
CM6K for half the price as the rest and get an equal or even stronger engine
than the rest on the market.






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