Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 23:55:50 12/04/98
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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 I started all of this with saying that people did not give credit to CM6K because it was cheap. I do not care if this program was the main tool for a pro or not, I do not think that is the point, the point is, it has got a strong game engine, maybe the strongest. And that it deserves to be put amount the best chess playing programs. If it played a strong game and can analyse good, if not the best out of all the other programs, then I am happy with that. I do not care if it cannot load a million different game formats or have all the bells and whistles like some of the other programs. WHO CARES The Engine is Grandmaster Strength and amoung the top, and should not be put down. That is all I want people to see. I was very annoyed to goto Gambitsoft and see CM6K in the master list of programs and not in the grandmaster list. If you look at the grandmaster list of programs, then chessmaster should be amoung them for certain. Its people like Gambitsoft who make people think that it is a cheap, weak program.
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