Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 06:05:05 12/05/98
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On December 05, 1998 at 02:55:50, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >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. Certainly it is as strong as the strongest, you are right. Any case I was not answering YOUR post about this issue, but maybe that of KK. fernando
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