Author: Rex
Date: 14:45:39 06/25/04
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On June 25, 2004 at 15:54:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: >After some extra testing and looking at CM 10.000, much or perhaps all the first >somewhat childish enthusiasm I had for it has evaporated. >Not that this product is deficient at all, but once you have begun to use it for >real after the first enthralling feeling that invade a freak with just the idea >you have in your hands something new, you rapidly comes to terms with a very >simple reality: it is the fact this CM is "new" only with respect to the most >shallow features. In every real aspect with CM 10º edition you have 99% of the >very same product capable of beating you 100% of times, the same toy with lot of >frills not better than the older and sometimes even worse, the same fastidious >Waitzkin with his same and so peculiar way not to talk english but to spurt an >uninteligible new yorkian jargon, the same or a very similar engine, -perhaps >stronger but that is moot to all of us-, etc. >Then, for what? >As John Merlino knows well because I corresponded with him about this two times >or so during his previous incarnation as Ubisoft employee, what I would >consider "new" is a far cry of all CM 10 offer. I do no care about stronger >engines as much, at least in this issue, I am reasonable enough not to ask for >more, being already absolutely surpasssed by current state of the art. What I >have been asking -Ed Schroeder also received from me, years ago, a petition of >the sort- is something altogether different and superuior -I believe- in terms >of utility for players of avrage force like me, that is to say, for people >playing between 1800 and 2100 Elo. There is nothing for this class of players >in stock. Yes, Fritz offers some interesting features, even CM does so, but not >to the degree neccesary. >Or it could be I ama sking for an impossible thing. >Anyway, CM 10 edition does not stand anymore in my purchasing list. Cm9000 is >more tha enough, as it was cm80000, 7000, 6000, 5500 and 5000. > >Better to purchase more books... > >Fernando Yeah I thought about the same thing with the new car I was considering purchasing. My old one will get me to point A and B, and so will the new one. Although the new one does have some newer bells and whistles it does complete the same task just like my old one. So do I keep the old one or purchase the new. My purchasing list DOES include the new!!
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