Author: Will Singleton
Date: 21:29:21 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. You three have been doing a great job. I would have zapped it immediately, but that's me. Your approach probably will work, and people respond better to that style, I guess. Will
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