Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:12:04 02/20/99
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I wonder why eveybody keeps harping on and wonders in amazement at the fact that a mass market chess programme like CM6000 can so easily play with the big boys which cost so much more. The answer is quite simple: At the heart of the chessmaster 6000 is the awesome KING engine by Johanne DE Konnig. This engine is probably the strongest in existence and could easily have been part of a specialist (ie professional) software package with auto 232 support in which case it would probably be battling for supremacy with the big 3 on the SSDF. The programmer however has obviously reached a better financial arrangement with Mindscape, the producers of chessmaster 6000 and other popular mass market games which typically sell for £29.99 at most computer and PC game vendors. The fact that it sells for this low price is what makes it an ideal christmas present for kids and is therefore selling in the millions unlike the professional chess programmes , some of which probably do not have an annual sale of more than a few hundred copies. Mindscape by the way is part of a much larger publicly held company which includes the Financial Times newspaper and Madame Tussauds (the famous london wax museum)and its decisions are driven largely by its stockmarket position (which i gather is quite good) rather than the exortations of a few insignificant members of the CCC. The only way that we would get the King as part of a professional chess package is if Johan de Konnig were to make an additional deal with someone like Chessbase and thereby make it a Fritz engine. rajen Gupta On February 20, 1999 at 05:41:36, Lin Harper wrote: >Hi Richard, thanks for the work you've put in so far. This must be boring, >though the results suggest that Mindscape should include auto player software in >their program. It's performing like this in the big league, so surely it would >command a higher price. Just be sure to give H7 a fair go on the faster >hardware, so nobody can complain. I look forward to more results today... take >care.
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