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Subject: Re: I want your views on the CM7K, Better or Worse, not including bugs.

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 03:43:46 10/11/99

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On October 11, 1999 at 06:38:46, Didzis Cirulis wrote:

>
>>How is the opening book editor, database, any new personalities worth looking
>>at, what about any new features ????
>>
>>Better or worse than CM6K. How about some positive comments !!!!
>
>Positive comments? Ok.... here we go:
>
>If I have to say, my answer is that CM7000 it is better then CM6000.
>Better for me as a user:
>
>1) I have not find any serious bugs this far. Just those usual ones in
>tutorials. Maybe there is still something bad to discover, but this far OK.
>
>2) After some days of use, I like CM7000's interface more than that of CM6000.
>It has everything required for "chess playing family" now.
>As for me, I like this division by rooms - it resembles my chess club, "Riga
>Chess School", a lot ;-)
>
>3)Now, when I have discovered for me how to handle epd pos and fen files, this
>is not a problem any more. (See my message about Thoughts, tips and
>work-arounds).
>
>4) No more "I am the next Fischer" problem.
>
>5)Separate Player statistics for Bullet, Blitz and Standard.
>
>In a couple of words: I see that Mindscape team has done a lot to make a good
>chess program for a whole family. This is done nicely. If I have not read about
>Michael's problems, I would say it is great, right on the target, chess product.
>And I still say it is great as it revives my desire to improve my own chess.
>
>Still I am looking for the upgrade, from good to perfect. ;-)
>
>Didzis Cirulis

From what I have seen, I agree, if I did not have the problems I had, I would be
using it instead of CM6K. I too think the rooms make it more interesting and
fun. Its just a shame that the only system I can get to use it on is on a really
slow system which makes me get pissed off and I leave it.



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