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Subject: Re: CM haters club

Author: Mark Young

Date: 00:40:38 12/11/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 23:53:33, mason wiest wrote:

>Ok so it plays good chess and it has lots of different opponents to play,
>and big deal it is the best selling chess program,let's just hate it
>because, just because we can :) So if you feel like this let's form a club
>and hate CM together.
>
Just out of curiosity why do you hate Chessmaster? I understand that people have
a favorite football team, or other sports franchise we cheer for, and general
they have a rival that they hate. Is this what is going on here? I just don’t
get how a few people can get so mad dog about a chess program. I had seen this
with Thorsten and Fritz 5, Lonnie Cook and Genius 5, and you and others with
Chessmaster. I just don’t get how you can get so emotional over a chess program,
that you can ignore the strengths of the program. Then attack its strength.
Chess and many aspects of chess programs are objective, not subjective. This
makes it hard to launch an attack on a chess program and have it carry water if
it does not have some kind of objective truth behind it. I wish you better
success in your effort then the others had.

Mark Young

>           sign,
>              CM haters club President,
>                                     ERIQ



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