Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 01:46:42 12/12/98
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On December 12, 1998 at 04:31:05, Bert Seifriz wrote: >On December 11, 1998 at 07:45:36, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >> >>On December 11, 1998 at 07:40:28, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>On December 11, 1998 at 07:31:55, Micheal Cummings wrote: >>> >>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 I do not understand how you can say that CM6K is pretty much the same as 5000, 5500 and even 4000 for that matter in playing engine. Where do you see this ?
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