Author: Tapio Huuhka
Date: 10:43:41 04/22/04
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On April 21, 2004 at 20:55:38, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >I have let my son (beginner) play against it at the lowest level and he enjoyed >it very much. Infact better than Chessmaster(*). I guess it is an important >point that he can play against it with the Dgt board and clock. >I have watched some of his games and haven't seen any 'dumb' blunder from >Shredder but instead some very nice 'blunders'. To win a piece he have to see >some tactics/combination. And also some nice mates that almost could be taken >out of CT-Art. >For me, I have played some games with about club-level and it set up a real >fight without any one moves blunder. It could seems that the levels isn't too >balanced in the strength from middlegame to endgame. Eg. If I live into the >endgame I can win equal positions quite easy. But I'm working myself up the >rating range so it will sure play better in the endgame too. That's very good news. I have considered Chessmaster, too, but haven't been eager to install a half a gigabyte program just to see the different personalities. Shredder Classic is fortunately much smaller than that. >(*) >To make a more safe way to connect the DGT board to Chessmaster I'm working on a >DGT to Winboard adapter (see another thread). > >Odd Gunnar
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