Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 16:09:51 12/12/98
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On December 12, 1998 at 18:47:42, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On December 12, 1998 at 16:38:29, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>Very easy: >>You are a programmer and you work 1 year and you have changed many >>details and so you change your chess program Slaughterchess version 1 in >>version 2. Okay. >>Or you say my changes are so tremendous I call that version >>Slaughterchess Diamond 50 Carat now! Okay, no objections if you made a >>jewel out of your program. >>Or you make some little changes and you can still say this is my new >>program. The old version was version 1, but now we have the year >>2000 at hand so the new version is called Slaughterchess Millennium >>2000 (there are no parallels with real life intended here!) >>I would have some objections here! >> >>And well there are also some honest and humble people in this world. >>They make a little change, their previous >>version was 1 and now they call it 1.1, or when the change was smaller >>they call it 1.01! This sounds reasonable and honest to me! >>Johan de Koning is honest! And now read his version numbers. >>Not 5000 or 6000, this is Mindscape algebra! Read his engine >>version numbers, that's what we are talking about! And in these >>numbers you can read which improvements he thought he made! >>Nice weekend, Bert > >I do not take your version method thinking as being able to tell how good a >program has jumped. I have many programs, not chess which do the same thing and >there are some many big improvements. > >I think there is a big strength difference between CM6000 and Cm5x00, Have you >ever thought Johan only does this in order to not make a big statement on >strength. He might be covering his bases, that if it is around the same as the >previous version, we can all use your theory, but if it is a big jump, which I >believe it is, I do not believe you theory holds water. > >Regards > >Micheal Okay, Chessmaster 3000 and before sucked for playing strength, let's forget those entirely. 4000 was the first to use a de Koning engine, if I recall correctly. All of a sudden there was a cheap program that was also strong! 5000 was a new version of The King (2.5 or so?). 5500 did have the same engine as 5000, but I think that 6000 again has a newer version (2.7?). I cannot check these versions because I do not own these products myself, I have friends who own them. Anyway, in the most recent Dutch Championship, The King won again, and I believe his engine version number was 3.0. So, it seems as though he continues to improve his software, and every once in a while Mindscape licences his latest and greatest from him. Dave Gomboc
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