Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 16:17:16 12/12/98
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On December 12, 1998 at 19:09:51, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Yes Cm6000 does use a updated engine that Cm5500, the one just below the new King 3.0 engine which just won the Dutch Championship
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