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Subject: Re: x rated chessmaster ?

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 01:45:04 10/24/99

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On October 23, 1999 at 23:39:43, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:

>On October 23, 1999 at 15:29:40, Jerry Homeister wrote:
>
>>I don't know if this has been asked before but, Is Chessmaster ever going to
>>feature endgame Tablebases?
>
>Probably not.  I expect that CM6000 will be the last reasonably workable
>version, and that CM7000 will be their last-ever version.  I expect them to go
>out of business soon, partly due to the bugs in CM7000.  Call it a hunch, like
>the Lone Ranger used to tell Tonto.  Kimo sabe?
>--JRM

No they will stay in bussiness. It would be a different story if this was say A
Fritz or another program dedicated to serious chess. But Apart from the King
engine, everything else is aimed for ther mindless mass market and will sell
like hot cakes.

So if anyone posts saying that CM7K is a toy, it is, not the engine, but the
interface. Has very little for the serious player.

They had the opportunity to put in features that would bring the serious player
in as well as the lesser player, and when they get better they could have used
the more serious features. But the later was never done and thus it will still
sell well and in later versions it will add the biggest Matel seller put into
it. The Barbie Doll Personality.



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