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Subject: Re: Very Easy Why Some People Hate Chessmaster

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 01:31:05 12/12/98

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On December 11, 1998 at 07:45:36, Micheal Cummings wrote:

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>On December 11, 1998 at 07:40:28, Harald Faber wrote:
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>>On December 11, 1998 at 07:31:55, Micheal Cummings wrote:
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>You maybe right but it was not the point of this post, I suppose I should have
>just wrote instead of trying to make points in my opinion that;
>
>The reason why some people hate CM6K is that they do not want to hear that a
>Cheap program maybe stronger than their expensive one.


Nobody hates CM, this is complete nonsense! But there is one thing
I do not like about it: there are new versions but the engine remains
more or less the same. This is certainly so from CM 5000 to 5500 to
6000, and maybe even 4000 has the same strength as 6000. Nobody tested
this!

What is the reason for this? I GUESS that the programmer Johan de
Koning has a problem, and the problem is how to make a super
chess program better. There might be a stage where you cannot
make any improvements any more without the risk of implementing
the opposite. And so I GUESS that he is designing a
completely new program at the moment and that might take time.

And just one more thing. Johan de Koning (CM6000) is Dutch,
Ed Schroder (Rebel) is Dutch, Frans Morsch (Fritz) is Dutch.
They know each other well, I saw them sitting at the same table
and telling jokes and stories, some playing cards and chess,
drinking beer, talking about the tournament games they had
just finished.
They maybe no close friends, but they are definitely no enemies.
Bert/gambitsoft












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