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Subject: Re: What's the Best Chessmaster? 6555, Bendorz, or 6000 ?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 05:02:59 07/27/99

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On July 27, 1999 at 07:40:40, Shep wrote:

>On July 27, 1999 at 06:05:55, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>On July 27, 1999 at 04:55:57, Shep wrote:
>
>>>We know. But there's no better way to get a quick impression than some eng-eng
>>>matches. At least it helps you identify real lemons.
>>
>>Really? Honestly, I am not sure.
>
>It does help. I tossed out some experimental settings after they scored along
>the lines of 0/5 in several eng-eng tourneys.

OK, this seems to be clear. I didn't expect such.

>>>Both betas will play a 4-game series against commercial opponents, then the
>>
>>Wow. How many opponents?
>
>Opponents are Tiger 11.8.2, Rebel 10, MChess 8 and Genius 6. In other words, the
>whole range of commercials, from absolute top to average.
>[So far, "CM 6666test" scored 1.5/2 against Tiger and Rebel at 60/game on the
>PIII-550s.]

4 games each I hope?

>>Ya, I know. Since months I am putting pressure on Johan (who really has almost
>>no influence on the new build-in features) and Mindscape for months to implement
>>a better opening book editor and the autoplayer. Mindscape once asked me for
>>further information and I sent them SMK's source code so hopefully it will come
>>with CM7k.
>
>Hopefully they will have any idea what this is all about. ;)
>I hope you told them how important an autoplayer is for the all-important SSDF
>list. Otherwise, they will probably say "How many percent of our customers will
>have a need for this? Oh, 1%!? Great. Idea dropped!" ;-(

Hey, I am no fool, of course I gave them the hint to SSDF. :-)
And since John Merlino is CCC  member I am optimistic that auto232 soon will
come for CM.

>I think Johan should stick to feeding Mindscape with smaller updates of his King
>2.xx and release 3.xx on a "real" platform such as Fritz GUI.
>Would probably be financially more attractive as well (?).
>---
>Shep

Maybe, but perhaps he has a treaty with Mindscape for several years...



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