Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 08:25:24 12/05/98
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On December 05, 1998 at 10:58:26, Georg Langrath wrote: > >On December 05, 1998 at 10:53:24, Matthew Herman wrote: > >>Recently there has been alot of discussion about CM6000 and whether it is good >>for a strong player etc.. What I have seen from this discussion is that there >>are some overlooked features maybe in CM6k that I am not seeing. Reynolds takata >>said something about using Cm6k to prepare for an opponent.. I have no idea how >>to do what he said in CM6k (I have cm5k-cm6k and fritz5) I am completely >>confused with the database functions.. YES its engine is VERY STRONG. But the >>database functions (very important stuff in my opinion) are practically nil >>(though much improved). One nice training feature (the ability to create books >>to prepare for an opponent or an opening in Fritz.) is not in CM6k. Also THERE >>IS NO SUPPORT FOR VARIATIONS in cm6k .. something this simple is overlooked. If >>CM or whoever owns "The King 3.0" would be able to have it be used as an >>analysis engine inside CM6k where you can have it while you look at a game that >>would be a VERY improved feature.. To put text commentary in the game and then >>port it to pgn doesn't work. This is unconvenient. I want to know WHAT you can >>do with the ENGINE if you can't analyse as well.. there are no variaitons >>supported etc.. except play a game vs the program.??? If I want a strong >>opponent I'll just fire up Crafty and play against in on winboard. Please shed >>light on how I can get more out of cm6k. > > >I have just bought CM6000 and is very pleased with it. One feature I like is >that it can analyze the game, also imported games, with a spoken voice or in >text. Also the layout is very nice, important for me. > >Georg Bravo !!! :) I agree with you 100 %. What good is it to have a strong engine if it does not do anything else except playing games with it. The lack of some very important features in the CM series is one of the reasons why I refuse to buy a copy. So what if CM6000 is a better or stronger engine than Fritz or Junior, remember that Chessbase and other programmers keep improving their engines every year, so this is on going process which produces better engines every year or two years at least. So CM6000 may rule today, tomorrow another stronger engine will arrive and rule, and so on. I use Fritz/Junior because it allows me to train and prepare my openings and understanding of the middlegames positions. And it is easy to create these training openings while using CM is very awkward to do so. Erudito.
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