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Subject: Re: Poll Question (simple) What program is the most exciting to play/watch?!

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 11:51:02 07/17/99

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On July 17, 1999 at 03:34:20, Keith Kitson wrote:

>In my experience I have been amazed at Shredder 3.  I have played several games
>with Shredder 3 against Hiarcs732 giving Hiarcs the superior hardware and bigger
>hash tables and with very few exceptions Shredder wins.  These games are
>normally at game in 60 mins or 60 moves in 1 hr.  Shredder has played most
>gameas as Black also.  I have given Hiarcs732 every chance but Shredder wins
>through most times.
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Hello Keith:

The question here is what is the most exciting program to _Play/Watch? Now I
beleve play here means human against software. Watch can mean various things.
However, I will state my opinion here: CM6000 is the most wonderful, delightful,
entertaining, interesting, and fun program to play against. Notice I didn't use
the word strongest there - the strongest program is I believe unknown at this
time.

Now where else can us humans play against Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, etc,. and
create tournaments with those and other personalities that range from real
patzer to Grandmaster - right here on CM6000. You can even adjorn a tournament
game with a sealed move - just like the real thing. The 2D wooden board looks
exactly like a real wooden board. The big black and white chess pieces are
beautiful. I enjoy looking at that chess board and piece set more than Hiarcs,
Fritz, and Rebel. It is just like looking at the real thing. Therefore, I would
say CM6000 is the most fun to play against, and the most exciting for the reason
of creating tournaments and playing against all the different personalities, and
the most enjoyable to watch or look at.
All this and I haven't even mentioned the very interesting style of CM6000.

It is not perfect - have to drag pieces instead of clicking on squares, but
maybe the next version will change the drag pieces. Anyway, Kasparov is waiting
for my move, so I have to go now. I certainly don't want to lose on time. :)

Regards,
Mel

>
>None of my other programs are able to make this sort of impact on the Hiarcs
>program.
>
>I am waiting in anticipation for the upgrade to Shredder.  I read somewhere that
>prior to the release of Shredder 4 there may be some downloadable upgrades from
>the shredder web site, but I've seen nothing so far.
>
>Anybody know anymore about this?
>
>Keith



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