Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 17:11:20 07/04/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 19:35:32, Zachariah Amela wrote: >Thank you all for the great insite! > >I currently use Chessmaster 4000 (yes I am out of date), Chenard and GNU Chess. >I've also tried Rebel and Arasan but don't currenlty have them on my HD. What >are these Hiarcs and CT-Art programs? Where would one obtain a copy? Also, >would you suggest upgrading to the latest version of CM? > >I thank you again for your assistance.You can obtain a copy of the programs mentioned from ICD/Your Move Chess & Games. Hiarcs is a commercial chess program, there two different versions, DOS and Windows. I would strongly recommend the Windows version, it's cheaper than the DOS version. CT-ART stands for Chess Tactics from Convekta, it's a combination chess tutorial which allows the user to practice chess tactics over 1400 positions. For a full review of these programs you should visit the Web Computer Chess Report, just follow the link from Computer Chess Resource Center. I'd wait for the new version of Chessmaster to come out, that is, Chessmaster 7000, and hope that Mindscape put book learning as a feature among other missing and essential features provided by other chess engines. Your version of chessmaster is okay, I remember 12 years ago, the only computer I had was a PC-XT (8086), 8 MHz, 640 KB of Ram, and the chess engines I used for training was Sargon 4, and Chessmaster 2100. Using these dinousar tools I was able to elavate my rating from 1600 to 2100. It took a lot of hard work, studying and playing training games ( key positions) against the computer. Of course with today's improved hardware/software the chess engines of today, Chessmaster 6000, Fritz 5, Hiarcs 7, Junior 5, Rebel 10, Shredder 3,etc., play much stronger and it is at least at GM level, and nobody will argue that is not at the IM level and above. Therefore, the key is knowing how to use the tools you have available. Laurence
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