Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 03:21:31 05/20/99
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If what you say is true then the chess maser for playstationII (or whatever the new sony games console is going to be called) should be a lot more powerful than the PC version as the playstation II processor is going to be atleast 2.5 times as powerful as the fastest intel chip of the day rajen gupta On May 20, 1999 at 03:19:11, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On May 20, 1999 at 02:53:40, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>On May 19, 1999 at 20:42:29, Micheal Cummings wrote: >> >>>Apart from setting the standard for low priced top of the world PC chess >>>software which makes other chess makers tremble. Now chessmaster with its >>>gameboy chess software will now be able to take control of the hardware market >>>for portable chess software. >>> >>>Lets look at the Novag Sapphire, which cost around $500 where I come from. And >>>now look at a gameboy for $79, plus the game $30. If this machine can match the >>>top portables, plus you get a screen to play chess with, and a Analysis fuction, >>>then it is going to destroy the portable chess market. >>> >>Hi, sorry to say so, but this is nonsense. Dedicated chess computers in >>all sizes exist because there are people who want to move pieces instead >>of looking on a screen. >>Secondly as you wrote yourself this is Chessmaster 2. In fact there was/is >>already a Chessmaster (5000) available for the Gameboy and this destroyed >>nothing. >>Third it plays so weak on a Gameboy that it is not interesting to many >>people. Besides, the kids who run around with a Gameboy prefer other >>games! >>All in all, this is no competition for anybody! > >Chessmaster II is what the playstation program is called. As for the new >gameboy, It only stated Chessmaster for color Gameboy. > >I got an email from chessmaster saying that the new one will be very much >stronger and different. They say that it will take advantage of the faster color >game boy chip. And they made the comment that when they stated that it was for >begginer to grandmaster, that is what you will be offered. > >So I think we will just have to wait and see how good it is. > >And the most interesting comment from them is that the playstation version of >chessmaster will take advantage of the new faster and powerful playstation that >is to hit the market soon. And current estimates suggest that it will be around >2500 USCF strength or stronger. And it will be very mch like CM6K for the PC. > >All I can say is that people like to underestimate the chessmaster. Earlier >versions for the PC were good but not great, now it is on top of the world. We >have had versions on both PSX and Gameboy, I think they are just fine tuning now >they will destroy :-) > >I am actually more interested in the playstation version, I have one of those, >but not a gameboy.
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