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Subject: Re: MChessPro v. 8 is a damn strong program

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 17:28:22 12/07/99

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On December 07, 1999 at 19:18:12, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>In Enrique Irazoquis' 12/31/98 tournament MChessPro v. 8 came in at third place
>barely behind Hiarcs 7.0 and Junior 5.0.  It actually scored 6.5 out of 10
>against Hiarcs but was bettered by Fritz 5.32 .
>
>It is an insult to Marty Hirsch to state that MChessPro v.8 was a half-hearted
>attempt to program a computer chess adversary.  If I know Hirsch, he is probably
>planning some chess program that has over 10 Gigabytes of chess knowledge in it.
> You will of course need to be running Win2000 or NT and have a 30 Gigabyte hard
>drive on a 1500 Megahertz computer.
>
>Those of you who have not played the Hirsch program should consider it.  It is a
>DOS program but it kicks butt.  Marty put his heart and soul into this program.
>The reason that it plays a bit weaker against computers is the fact that it is a
>slow searcher.


Not true. ver 5 player the fast searchers on ICC well, when ver 6 came along it
went downhill

HIARCS proves u don't need to be fast to be good, CSTal as well

  Just be brave enough to play it head to head with your own
>noggin and it will scramble your gliae.
>
>Mchess Pro v 8  has received excellent reviews by Komputer Korner and others at
>this site and it really is a good program to have in your collection.
>
>Tim Frohlick



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