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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