Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:30:57 12/19/99
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Hi: After receiving Millenium package and playing couple of games with each at 40 moves in 90 minutes, both Genius 6,5 and schredder 4 in my Armada 266 Mhz with more than 80 Mb in RAM, my impressio is that both are very strong, yes, and a lot stronger than me, OK, but still they are not so edgy, pushing, enterprising and interesting as Century is. Genius 6,5 does not seem to be so different to his predecesors: he win against a player like me -2100 elo- , but only after heavy fight and an slow atrittions of my forces duly helped by the unavoidable tactical mistake that happens after so long a game...Schredder is somewhat more sharp, maybe a lot more in middle game, but equally you does not feel he same degree of inmediate pressure that Century produces from the very first minute. Century begins to make life miserable with the first move after openning phase is finished and if you does not know well each line, as it is my case due to deep chess lazyness, the slight imprecision in your piece meal improvisation " a la Lasker" will put you in problems at once. Not htat Century has longer lines, but seems to know what to do in that difficult phase of he game. So, it seems we must wait Tiger for something really new. Until now, I consider Century my best 1999 purchase.
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