Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 06:59:38 02/12/00
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On February 12, 2000 at 09:23:43, Albert Silver wrote: >On February 12, 2000 at 02:09:56, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On February 12, 2000 at 01:45:50, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On February 12, 2000 at 01:09:07, Vincent Vega wrote: >>> >>>>On February 12, 2000 at 00:50:02, Albert Silver wrote: >>>> >>>>>>What is the best-selling chess program? What made that program best-selling >>>>>>when it's strength was well behind other? >>>>> >>>>>Best-selling program whose strength is well behind others.... Beats the heck out >>>>>of me. Which? >>>> >>>>Whose strength _was_ well behind others. Don't twist my words. A: Chessmaster. >>> >>>Why do you believe that Chessmaster was well behind the others in strength. I >>>believe quite the opposite -- that it is and has been one of the very strongest >>>programs. >> >>Chessmaster was a best seller back in the days of CM2000 and CM2100. The first >>"wow!" chess engine from them didn't come until CM4000, years later. >> >>Dave > >I tend to disagree. When CM2000 and then CM2100 first came out, it came out not >for the PC, but the Apple II. On the Apple the best program available at that >time was Sargon III to my knowledge, and CM was not inferior when it came out. >It was my first program, and it sure wowed me then. Of course, considering the >fact that I had just learned to play, that wasn't all that difficult, but as I >got stronger, I played the both of them, and still preferred CM. > > Albert Silver Hmm. I recall CM3000 being *seriously* outclassed by the competition. Dave
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