Author: Richard A. Fowell
Date: 21:11:20 12/31/04
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On December 30, 2004 at 19:11:01, William Bryant wrote:
>I will be interested in you opinion of the overall chess package.
>I will be interested in how it compares to HIARCS using the Sigma Chess
>Interface (when it gets released),
>both in terms of features and in terms of cost.
>
>I am a little perturbed that when I purchased CM6000 it was the old engine (no
>upgrade),
>and now it is still a 3 year out of date engine being ported and not the latest.
>
>William
In a sense, the engine is only 5 months out of date.
Five months ago, the latest version of Chessmaster for Windows was
Chessmaster 9000 - with the same chess engine ("The King 3.23")
as the Macintosh version that was released this month.
Also, had they met their forecast of a second quarter 2004 release for CM9000
Mac
( http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ArticleID=9209),
both Mac and Windows would have had the same version in July of this year.
Of course, Chessmaster 10 for Windows was released on August 10, 2004.
They could have chosen to put that newer engine on the Mac.
However, since they were six months late in doing the presumably simpler job of
porting an existing version, we'd probably still be waiting if they had tried to
do
parallel development on both platforms.
Given that it has been five years since the last Mac update (CM6000),
I'm just happy to have a reasonably current version of Chessmaster.
If you want your Mac chess engine to be the latest, strongest thing,
wait for the imminent HIARCS 9.46 Mac release.
-Richard
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