Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:00:09 06/11/04
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On June 11, 2004 at 11:35:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >It is curious; each time a company advertise a new program that brings this or >that frills, boards, new and pleasant features for the people and so give to us >a decent reason to purchase them, two or three pros jumps and using his worst >sarcasm and louder arrogance say "nobody" want those things and besides they >insist -the old, very old argument- the CPU will lose such and such degree of >power to process the game. >So let me ask: >How many people here, pros included, are higher than 2000 Elo player? Or at most >2300? Not relevant. People usually do not buy chess programs to play against them. People who are interested in playing against programs can dowload free programs that are weaker. >So, what is the importance that a chess engine, with the frills, will play at >"only 2495" instead o 2550 without the frills? Important for part of the buyers. Chess programs are used for correspondence games when the target is to win so 2550 instead of 2495 can give another half point and can be the difference between getting the IM norm and not getting the IM norm in correspondence games. Uri
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