Author: ludicrous
Date: 04:17:41 09/14/05
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CSTAL II is the one program I can't go without. I couldn't believe - no one could believe the price of the program CSTAL 2 that I found in a shop last year. They had like 10 remaining copies of the CSTAL CD, and since they were not really chess people, they sold each CD for something like 35 cents each. Even if I could have a pc running on a million gigahertz, I will still install my CSTAL 2 on it (provided that the Microsoft OS running on it will still allow me to install old software like this. --- Windows XP with SP 2 won't allow me to install CSTAL anymore. I have to install CSTAL immediately after reformatting my pc in order to make it work.) One thing I would like to know --- several years ago, people were amazed at how good CSTAL fared against other program running, or calculating a lot faster than it. One could only imagine then how CSTAL would be, running on future machines. I think we can answer that now. It appears to me that CSTAL's increase in strength relative to speed is not that significant. Some thought maybe CSTAL would be even more daring. As for me, before, I wondered if CSTAL ran on extremely fast hardware, maybe its style would change into something more fritz-like or computer like. I don't know...does anyone know the effects of speed to an 'intuitive' program like CSTAL?
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