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

Author: Kai Skibbe

Date: 22:53:03 12/03/98

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On December 03, 1998 at 23:26:30, Vicente Fernández 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.
>
>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.

Do you play the games on one computer ? In this case the match is unfair for the
opponent of chessmaster, because cm6000 uses the processor even if you have
played the match with permanent brain of.
Conclusion : No matches with cm6000 on one computer !

Best regards
Kai






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