Author: Dan Kiski
Date: 08:17:59 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 10:42:49, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On December 21, 1998 at 08:20:15, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>I was at a number of scholastic tournament over the years with alot of kids >>between 8 & 12 years old. In the lobby of the hotel the ones that had notebook >>computers all had Chess Master on them. They really liked the colorful (and >>this mostly on D' Scann screens), chess boards & game sounds, with music. >> >>My girlfriend is 28. She doesn't really like chess too much anymore, but >>suddenly she is playing Chess Master 6000 everyday. Why is that? "I like the >>personalities" You can set them for whatever blitz time control you like, they >>start with a preconfigured rating, but then after each game they change, just >>like in a real tournament, except that after I lose, I don't have some dumm guy >>hitting on me, while offering his 'Great chess wisdom'. I really like the Wendy >>personality right now. You should try this Larry, You'll like it". >> >>You can't argue with the like's/disslike's of little kids & young girls, so I >>wouldn't even try. I'm sure Mindscape figured this out in one of their >>marketing 101 meetings, said, "Screw it to the advanced chess features, lets >>make a product that we can sell to these little kids and young girls, and maybe >>we'll throw in a few bones for those dumm-ass chess master's too later on..." >> >> >>Ho, Ho, Ho everybody! >>mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! > >I am not going to go into why this post heading makes me angry, I am fed up with >all you CM likers and dislikers who still like to throw little insults at the >program. > >Even though yes little Children and young girls might like this program, this is >a carefully written insult to the program. Nice story you wrote but I see no >other point to this post other than to get the usual CM6K lovers to yet again >defend their program. I thought we were past all this, I suppose not. > >All I can say is WHATEVER, last time I respond to these pointless CM6K posts. > >And yes Micheal Cummings is defending CM6K from all you mean people out there >who just want to pick and stir on this program. > >Plus over the years CM was the cheapest program with a strong engine on the >market, thats why kids had it. Think they are going to dish out 4 times as much >to get Fritz and other top programs years back. > >Well gee if they did, you would be writing Fritz is for little children and >girls :-) > >Then what would people say. This little child will today finish a 6 player, 6 rounds, 1 hour\side CM6K tourney of different CM personalities found over the web, including CM6555, Bednorz,those listed at KK's website, the standard CM and two others. When I left this am the CM6555 was in 4th place. I will post results later today. I aim to take the three best and put them in tourney with Fritz 5.16, Rebel 10 and MChessPro 8, at the same stated time controls.
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