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Subject: Re: What has Richard Lang done in the last 2 years?

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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