Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 23:31:19 12/16/98
Chessmaster6000 is a better Toy than a lot of the other programs out there. True, its opening book editor is a joke, but I don't use it, and I don't know many people (or chess player's), who use the opening books editor in the programs they do own anyway. In fact the Fritz5 default book is so excellent I am plenty happy with it. Even though I also own the 'power book', & with just a few mouse clicks, I could import all of the Chess Base Magazine stuff into the standard one. I guess I'm not any kind of 'serious chess player' or student by Komputer Korner's standards! Yes, CM6000 could benifit immensly from analysis in watch mode, no doubt. Features I like about this excellent toy; 1. Rate my play. I still haven't memorized these games completely, my memory is so bad, but I (still),find this feature very challenging. 2. Josh Waitzkins voice annotated games. True, I don't like JW. He was mean to me in a face to face blitz game in front of his friends. But this feature is intriguing. I enjoy his lecture's, even though I'm not too crazy about him. 3. A wide verity of time control posibilities, and the capability to change the value of pieces & way the program plays agianst you. (So called CM5500 or CM6500 settings?) 4. 64 chess unique chess personalities or one's you set yourself. I haven't really tried this out, but my girlfriend likes this feature so much, (She seems to like the 'Wendy' personality best!), that it is currently the only program she will play. (She used to like Fritz5, because of the handicap features). 5. Much improved database features, with 400,000+ games in TascBase format. If you own Tascbase as well, it is a good combination, since it is so inexpensive. 6. The King chess engine, in my random test, has solved tactics 'crunch positons' faster than any other chess program I own. I don't claim that this is the objective truth, but it does seem that way to me. 7. It creates its own topic! Just say CM6000, and people seem to get very worked up about it:) I think the only other program that Komputer Korner 'has it in for', as much right now, is Convetka's, 'Encyclopidia Of Middlegames' Call me crazy, but I like them both. All chess software has its limitations & faults, but if it doesn't crash as soon as you boot it up, (Power Chess, anyone?), and it performs to some extent as it is designed, then it has its worth... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict!
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