Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 00:05:12 12/04/98
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On December 04, 1998 at 00:32:19, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >>>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. You did not understand what KK was saying. Even if CM 6K was stronger than DB, it misses some features that you "need" if you want to analyse your games and work with your openings! ( Bad opening book editor and I belive you can not move through a game while CM analyze in the background ) Torstein
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