Author: blass uri
Date: 00:24:21 12/18/98
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On December 18, 1998 at 02:54:53, Komputer Korner wrote: >On December 17, 1998 at 09:50:25, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: > >>On December 16, 1998 at 17:11:20, Komputer Korner wrote: >> >>>This is good news about the CM7 opening book editor, but if they don't also add >>>the capability of analyzing in player player mode with the engine showing on >>>screen analysis and score eval while taking back and moving forward moves, then >>>ChessMaster will still remain a toy program. This is the single most important >>>feature in chess programs which all the high end programs have. >>>-- >>>Komputer Korner >> >> >>KK, exactly why do *you* get to decide what's the "single most important >>feature"? I've said it before, and I'm saying it again: I'm a USCF Master >>(pretty strong and serious), and I haven't used this feature in at least a year. >>My best friend is a USCF Master...he doesn't use it either. Our City Champion is >>a USCF 2300, and I asked him what he uses his computer for...he uses it to play >>games, and to analyse games from his students. >> >>So tell me....since we three serious, master-level players don't consider this >>feature very important *at all*, exactly how is it the 'single most important' >>feature? >> >>Yes, I know that you know chess software, but you simply don't speak for all (or >>probably evenb a majority) of computer-using chess players? >> >>Your obsessing on features that many consider trivial (opening book editor, this >>analysis mode) detracts from your toherwise informative and even-handed analysis >>of these programs. >> >>Chris Dorr >>USCF Life Master > >Well then you simply aren't using computers to their fullest extent in helping >you study chess. I don't care what your rating is. Even Kasparov uses player >player mode with on screen PV analysis to look at positions. He isn't looking at >the score evaluation of course but he is certainly looking at the PVs. Buy a top >rated prgram like Rebel 10, M-Chess Pro 8 , Junior 5 or the upcoming Hiarcs 7 >and use them properly to analyze positions and you will begin to understand how >to study chess with chess engines. Perhaps an opening book editor isn't that >important for some even though it has helped me win more than 1 game, but >analysis in player player mode with on screen analysis of PVs IS the most >important feature of a chess program. CM 6000 doesn't have that. It could be >possible to set up a macro with an add on utility as Richard Fowell says to work >around this but since all top chess programs have this feature, then I have the >right to call CM6000 a toy program without that feature. >-- >Komputer Korner I do not think it is a big problem because I can use take back and switch sides if I want to see the PV Uri
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