Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 15:34:56 12/15/99
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On December 15, 1999 at 14:12:27, John Merlino wrote: >I have no problem either way. ;-) Hopefully the patch will get you up and >running and we can all be serenaded once again with the beautiful strains of you >praising Chessmaster to the heavens.... ;-) I did not realise that CM7K did not have infinite analysis, as you would know to my limited use of the program. This is very unacceptable, I use CM6K for position analysis and usually let it search for hours to find positions. I would say that without this feature, even if there was NO bugs, I would not buy this program. THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED. I would hope that if the guys have been there since CM5K, they would know what should be there and what should not be there. Features are one thing, and bugs in certain features can mean everything. If a crappy personality does not work then that can be ignored more that the missing of a feature which most people playing chess would use, and that being infinite analysis. They were on a winning formula with CM6K, and they had plenty of suggestions when that came out as to what people would like in the next version. They had plenty of time in which to take this information in, It is not as thouugh it was thrust upon them in the last minute. It came to them after the release of CM6K. Then why do they go and create a whole new interface and where they take away great features and add some which in my view a puffy rubbish. Does anyone in the development team actually play chess ??? or know about other chess programs ???? It is not difficult to balance between what serious players want, and what you need to make it interesting for the mass market. You would think that since the engine did top the SSDF that they would realise that they had some opportunity to take this program to the serious and mass market. Why do they take the line of turning into more of a toy type program then giving the best of both worlds. I would have thought by now that getting it right is what they should be looking at. They should know that 80% of the chess boards and peices (mainly the 3D pieces) are just plain annoying and utter crap to play with and look at when playing. They should add a survey to their site asking all these types of questions about what was good and bad what is needed and what is not. They can go and change the way there web sites look they could add this to gauge what people want I think that is enough comment for now. But it more satifying to air them here then sending them to Chessmaster to get the same response "Chessmaster has taken on board your comment and thankyou for them" or something similar. To me it seems to be automated response and get put into the recycle bin.
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