Author: G.Mueller
Date: 12:47:22 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 14:24:13, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >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! It is true, so sad as it is, official they they 32bit engine has still problems, but will be free offered for all who have registered in 2-1999! Best wishes G.Mueller
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