Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 06:37:20 12/09/98
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I again must agree with Reynolds, KK. As I mentioned in a post on RGCC, you must be careful when you assume that everyone uses a program the same way that you do. I'm a USCF Life Master. My best friend is another USCF Life Master. Neither of us uses an opening book editior. Neither of us uses a program to do live positional analysis as we play through a game. We both have several programs that do different things. He has Extreme and CM6K analyse games that he has played. I use the database features and 'personality' settings of CM6K frequently. Neither of the shortcomings that you mentioned in the your previous post are of *any* concern to me. Your 'absolutely essential' is my 'trivial'. While many players, I'm sure, do use an opening book editor, I would bet that a sizeable majority of tournament players don't. *Nobody* that I know in person does. Many don't use their chess program to analyse positions 'live' as you mentioned, too. Many just want a very strong, customizeable program to work out against. CM6K fits the bill perfectly. I believe that CM6K is a very useful tool for serious tournament players. It is for me. It is for my friend. It appears to be for Reynolds. That's three USCF Life Masters (including 1 FM). That's some pretty serious horsepower to call 'non-serious'. Chris Dorr USCF Life Master
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