Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 20:33:18 10/31/99
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On October 31, 1999 at 21:23:37, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >Although I am not suffering the kinds of dissasters that some other CM7000 >purchaser's are, I spent a little more time today (about 2 hours), with this >program, and here are my observations; > >*The layouts are very customizable, and the look & feel can certainly be nicer >than CM6000, but I could not find a way to keep any selected layout or piece set >from room to room. (probably is not a way). I did not find a successful way to >save setting either. (though, I suspect this can be done, it was not obvious to >me). > >* Where is the music! Seems that this has been completely removed for this >version. Very dissapointing to me. Also the 'spoken commentary' seems to be a >default setting. Unless I can find a way to save desired settings, I find this >a very irritating default. > >* Great selection of classic games with good notes (for average player's such as >myself) - But no way to search on these games in this list. (How can I remember >where that Rohde-Kogan game is, or what year it was played?). Even though it is >'only' 1500 or so games, I consider this a bad fault. > >* When replaying a game, you have to hold down the ctrl key & R key at the same >time. One would think that the Chess Master designers, would have realized by >now that being able to replay the game with just the right arrow key is a huge >(& easy), improvement they could have made. Again, a dissapointment. > >* Though there is a number of tutorials, I found them very confusing to >navigate. I know there is 10 or 12 Waitzkin games, but I could only remember >how to find 3 of them today. Also the 'John Nunn's favoright puzzles', appears >to have crashed on me. > >* The 'Rate my play' with illustrative games seems to have also been taken out >for this version. Another of the (IMO), better quiz/tutorials in past versions, >that is evidently gone. > >Over all CM6000 seem a much more 'pollished', and complete entertainment chess >program to me. > >CM7000, though it has an up-front fresher & newer look, quickly gets stale with >what it is lacking. I consider it unfortunate that Mindscape could not have >produced a superiour new program (& CM7000 seem more a new program, than an >strait-foward upgrade), with the best from its previous program(s). >It strikes me as ironic that a previous version of this same companies program >is more 'complete', in almost every way. > >Larry - the chess software addict! This is even made worse when they asked for people to send them advice, they take out features which were good, made the settings very poor in saving and to control. I just wonder how many people were involved in making this that were invloved in making CM6K. They had the opportunity to make a program that newcomers, to intermediate to advance players could use. To learn and progress with the program, to have features that when you get better you could utilise, But this is not their. This program is for newcomers and intermediate players (even though the engine is still one of the strongest) The features and aim for this program are not for advanced players. I await your further comments
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