Author: Mark Young
Date: 21:06:09 09/16/99
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On September 16, 1999 at 21:06:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 16, 1999 at 19:29:53, Thom Perry wrote: > >>On September 16, 1999 at 18:55:01, Bradley S., Short wrote: >> >>>On September 16, 1999 at 17:53:52, odell hall wrote: >>> >>>>On September 16, 1999 at 13:16:08, Bradley S., Short wrote: >>>> >>>>>The last time I even used Chessmaster 3000 was on a 486/50. Lately >>>>>I have been playing around with it on a Celeron 366 and it is much >>>>>improved. >>>>>Beat Novag Sapphire 5 to 0 at game in 60 minutes. >>>>>Draw against CM5500 at 3 min per move. >>>>>Draw against CM6000 at 3 min per move. >>>>> >>>>>It takes time to play these 3 min per move games but so far CM3000 hasnt >>>>>been beaten. It can see over 200,000 postitions per second. more >>>>>four times 5500 or 6000. >>>>>Both 5500 and 6000 are much more sophisticated programs with better >>>>>algorithms so they would no doubt defeat 3000 in serious matches but >>>>>still I am quite pleased with the old boy. >>>>>I used 3000 to learn to play the game and back then it really used to >>>>>make short work of me. As I got stronger I began to see its weaknesses.. >>>>>Later I got 4000 and went back to getting spanked. >>>>>But now that the hardware is 10 times faster 3000 made a significant leap >>>>>in strength. Enough to interest me again. >>>>> >>>>>Brad >>>> >>>> >>>> If you ask me Chessmaster 3000 is rather weak, I beat it like a step-child >>>>when I had my cyrix 233 > >Stop and think for a moment and perhaps you can come up with a very nice analogy >or metaphor involving someone of a different race. Imagine for a moment how mad >a whole bunch of people would get if you used this analogy in this group, and >your best response to this would perhaps be to go hide under a rock. > >Now imagine an analogy involving some light belligerent intent, or reference to >a meat product, or something like that. If you use this analogy, perhaps it >offends someone, and your response would be something like, "excuse me for >living, buster". > >There has been a complaint about the analogy at the end of the quoted post. I >think the analogy is somewhere between the two situations described in my >previous two paragraphs. I can see the point of the complaint, but I don't want >to delete the post. I would ask that people consider carefully the effect their >words will have on the large and diverse population of people who read CCC, and >please try to use images that won't result in complaints to the CCC moderator >alias. > >Thanks, > >bruce > >PS. It is possible that another moderator may feel differently and delete the >thread. If so, nevermind. Excuse me a moment, but I have a complaint about the aforementioned complaint. First I think that complaining is offensive unless of course it is used to complain about a previous complaint. Therefore I would like to register this offence. Next I believe that is imposible to write most anything without risking offending someone whether though intent, misunderstanding or just plain contrary thin-skinned individuals. (Please excuse the use of the wording "thin-skinned" for those of you out there that may be epidermally chanllenged.) Now at times we all write things that offend through intent, and even that at times should be certainlly allowable. Since some people are certainly highly offended at even the slightest offence. For instance if I say I don't like your favorite chess program you might be offended. Now for those that broady intrepret the writtings of others, misunderstanding can occur which offends. (Please excuse the use of the word "broad" for those that may broadly (oops sorry again) interpret the use of that word.) Surely the author of such posts can not be held responsible for the interpretations of such people. And lastly those that are easily offended will find themselves offended with this post, and this sentence in fact. Heck, they may even be offended by the word heck or even by this word...no wait maybe this one...or that one...no the one up there. Well, you can just never tell. And for this last type of individual the best advice I can give them is to "get a life" but of course this may be too offensive for them to hear.
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