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Subject: Re: CM 7000, day 2 (:

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:34:40 11/02/99

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On November 01, 1999 at 21:51:14, Steven J. Brann wrote:

>>
>>I really like the new CM. I think the new GUI was worth the money for
>>the upgrade.
>>
>>Tony
>
>For the most part I too like the new navigation modes.  I took the advice of a
>prior post and now have the 1.0.3 upgrade.  I did this via the Mplayer site and
>it took me about an hour to "dumbsnoot" my way through it.  It's too soon to
>tell what the patch accomplished.
>
>One thing I've noticed is that Mindscape apparently removed the capability of
>setting up personality vs. personality tournaments where a personality of your
>invention can compete with Chessmaster (or any other personality) there.  In
>CM6000, head to head matches with Chessmaster and the CM6666 settings (posted in
>this forum) resulted in a distinct edge to CM6666.  The inability to invent a
>personality and track its performance against Chessmaster is disappointing.
>
>Whether or not the upgrade for CM7000 is worth it or not is for individuals to
>decide.  I am warming up to the GUI.  But after all, the computer chess addict
>is duty-bound to offet the negatives with the positives.  (Gotta get rid of that
>post-purchase dissonance as best I can).  <S>
>
>Steve

The Chessmaster team tells me that you have found a bug. Congratulations! They
apologize for the problem and tell me that your fix will be available in the
final patch, which should be out in about a month.

jm



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