Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 12:18:53 12/04/98
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The header on this topic is a bit misleading. I have to agree with Reynolds Takata on this....CM6K very definitely has a place in the aresnal of strong, serious players. I had a usenet discussion of a very similar topic with Komputer Korner a few weeks ago. I'm not a pro, but I am a USCF Life Master, and consider myself both reasonably strong and reasonably serious. KK's biggest problem with CM6K was with the lack of a reasonable book editor. My position on this was that, for many people (myself included), this handicap is trivial. I have limited amounts of time to study and play chess; I'd much prefer to actually play or study, than to edit an alreay-1,000,000 position book. I have a bunch of software tools. I use them for different purposes. CM6K has a nice array of personalities, and can be extensively customized. It is immensely strong, and has a pleasing style (IMHO). I wouldn't rely on it as my sole chess program (although I could if necessary), but I certainly believe that it has a very prominent position in my software collection. Christopher R. Dorr USCF Life Master On December 04, 1998 at 10:12:03, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Incredible how long discussion are produced because a lack of previous >definitions of terms, as usual. A very long thread begun about if CM6000 should >or should not be considered as a serious program just because nobody bothered to >say that serious programs does not coincide with just strong programs. Strenght >is now a comodity. You can get strong program even in freeware sections. Do I >exagerate if i say most of them defeat most of us anyway? So the point is how >good and workable the database is. It's good to learn openings? Makes things >easier to grasp your weaknesses? Ches programas are now strong in the same sense >as all motorcars have wheels. The issue is: what about the rest and the rest >here is the surroundings, even the GUI. I dare to say that once database >facilities reach a point of strenght as engines has, GUi will be the next >decisive point to evaluate. >fernando
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