Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 17:32:52 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. A simple thing as importing PGN files into book and even in ver 8 it wasn't fixed. I emailed KK about this and he said and I quote,"This program wasn't even beta-tested" That was supposed to be one of the first to import game files into book and it was never stable ANd if his heart and soul is into it then why is working full-time on something else. I understand marty has to make a living BUT u can only give some much of your time and from what I have seen more and more time was going into surviving instead of programming 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. 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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