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Subject: Re: Very Easy Why Some People Hate Chessmaster

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 04:44:20 12/12/98

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On December 12, 1998 at 06:37:28, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>On December 12, 1998 at 04:46:42, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>
>>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 ?
>
>Well, 4000 may be a bit far fetched, but
>the engine is called King (because Koning is Dutch for king).
>So all you have to do is look at the engine version in
>the different CMs.
>Bert

Yes but I do not understand what that has got to do with anything, in each
version the King engine is also a new version. So what is your point.
The Engine is not the same in 5000, 5500, and CM6000 is still a newer version
engine than the others.



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