Author: D.B. Morris
Date: 20:33:14 12/06/04
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Thanks to each of you for your helpfulness and good suggestions. Your helpfulness is most appreciated. Most of us that have been around chess for many years would like a program rated 3000 for analysis, but sometimes I wonder if a very weak program with outstanding graphics might be best to interest the very young. (Ever try to obtain merit badges in the boy scouts)?(Perhaps one with about 4 levels, starting around 600 and increasing in difficulty, perhaps, by 100 points at each level. Once a level is defeated the program challenge goes out to the next level to motivate a child up to the 900 or 1000 level and the child completes the program feeling successful...To me the problem with a program such as Chessmaster for example, even though it is marketed with a huge range, from "Beginner to Grandmaster," there is an endless pit of never truly being able to "Master the program." Seems to me, it might be possible to create a "craze" over a chess program, in the light of how some of the old video games (like pac man for example) somehow felt winable. Thanks again for your insights... dbm
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