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Subject: Re: Shredder's consistency is impressive

Author: Laurence Chen

Date: 06:22:01 06/19/99

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On June 19, 1999 at 08:46:13, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>On June 19, 1999 at 08:37:34, Peter Kasinski wrote:
>
>>Champion in Jakarta '96, third in Paris '97, without a loss in this year's main
>>competition. Whatever the playoff result - sincerest congratulations to Stefan!
>>Shredder is one of the few true windows programs, with fantastic features and
>>
>>  NO PROGRAM CAN REASONABLY CLAIM TO BE STRONGER
>>
>>(in anticipation of endless disputes between Fritz and CM6K owners)
>>
>>PK
>having both Shredder2 and CM6K, CM6K is way ahead of shredder2 in my tests, and
>also I would say shredder3. It a shame that unlike all the other programs taking
>part needing to prove something to everyone. Chessmaster is happy in the
>knowledge that is just so good that it does not need to take part in these
>little events to prove just how good it is over the others who are taking part
>:-)
>
>I mean apart from controling the largest share of the chess market, it would
>just kill off the rest if this powerhouse engine took part and wiped the others
>away, Mindscape are just to nice to do that to the others :-)
Are you making up excuses just like Fischer when he refused to defend his title
against Karpov for the World Championship? If CM6000 was as good as Mindscape
thought it was then Mindscape wouldn't have missed the opportunity to enter the
engine in this tournament. Talk is cheap !!! (:
Laurence



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