Author: John R. Menke, Sr.
Date: 08:39:32 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 08:48:22, Klaus Evers wrote: > >On June 18, 1999 at 05:05:12, Harald Faber wrote: > >>On June 18, 1999 at 04:51:54, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>>I'm sure that this has been posted before, but I couldn't find it. >>>>So my question is: >>>>Does anybody know why CM6000 and CS Tal are not present in Paderborn >>>>at the WCCC ? >>>>Kind regards >>>> >>>>K.E. >>> >>> >>>Klaus, >>> >>>CM6000 has a lousy opening book and wouldn't stand a chance in hell against the >>>fierce Paderborn competition. CS Tal II is a lot weaker than any of the >>>contestants and with an elo rating of 2300 would be creamed. >> >>CSTal is said to be in testing phase so no chance to test it in Paderborn... >>Don't know why Mindscape didn't manage to go there but certainly they would have >>been able to manage a better opening book e.g. Who knows. In fact they don't >>need this event to sell their copies. >> >>>Remember that we are not dealing with SSDF here. We are dealing with machines >>>that put out at +1,000,000 nps and have multi-gigabyte endgame tablebases. A >>>Volkwagen can go faster than me on my bicycle but it aint no match for a >>>Ferrari. > > > >> >>Therefore isn't it amazing that very slow programs like Lambchop win against the >>Ferraris like it did against PConners? >>Conclusion: A Ferrari isn't worth anything if it drives into the wrong >>direction. > > >ha ha , *lol*, that's a good response! I like the knowledge based progs >like hiarcs and rebel very much, but at the moment fritz is 1.00 ahead against >hiarcs (though material is absolute equal). crossing fingers for hiarcs! > >say, is CM6000 really such a big thing in the american market (I am from Europe, >so I don't know this)??? > >CU! > >Klaus E. Klaus, CM6000 is inexpensive and Mindscape has a good marketing system. For example I was registered with them as a CM5000 owner. In February I received an offer from them to update to CM6000 for US$26.51 (including taxes & shipping). Who could refuse considering their large, excellent 443,219 game database that comes along with it!? I hear that CM6000 is criticized for a small opening book, but that doesn't take the game database into account. I find that the database takes over where the opening book leaves off, so it's really very deep. John
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