Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 11:24:13 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 11:38:41, G.Mueller wrote: >On December 21, 1998 at 11:08:45, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>On December 21, 1998 at 08:58:58, Jouni Uski wrote: >> >>>Has he been working with Genius6 or not? >>I guess not!!! It seems to me from the reports of people who got Genius 6 is >>identical to Genius 5, and perhaps that is why Genius 5 is missing in the Genius >>6 CD. And perhaps the only difference between the two engines is one is a 32 bit >>engine (Genius 6) and the other a 16 bit engine (Genius 5). So should the >>consumer pay full price for a conversion of 16 bit to 32 bit? >>Of course, there have been some improvement in the GUI, and Genius 6, a.k.a >>Millenium, will allow different chess engine to run with the same GUI, so >>perhaps that is the major difference between the two Genius. >Sorry, but genius6 engine is 16bit in thunking, like Junior 4.6 under Fritz 5.32 >or Hiarcs6 and it is alower then original Genius5 engine, you only have a new >GUI, Autoplay under Windows and a new book this is all for a high price. > >Best wishes G.Müller If this is true (and I hope it isn't), then the GUI better be worth the upgrade cost. I think it will be. I suspect that if the above is true, the true 32bit Genius will appear at a later time, hopefully for free, through downloading. After all, they are advertising it as Genius6. A new product, deserves a new engine as part of the program, even if it is late in coming. mrslug the inkompetent chess software addict!
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