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Subject: Re: Subjective analysis of the STYLE of selected programs

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 17:59:34 02/24/00

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On February 24, 2000 at 19:27:02, Drazen Marovic wrote:

>Chess Tiger - passive and uninterprising, but solid on good hardware
>
>Chessmaster brilliant combinative player
>
>Fritz 5-6 - A Genius tactician
>
>Rebel- seemingly a positional style or is this just an inability to create good
>tactics(relatively speaking of course)?
>
>Junior 6- I was prepared for this program to be "IT!", but i have been sadly
>dissapointed, perhaps my hardware is too slow(p166mmx)?  In running through my
>book "smyslovs 125 best games"  Junior hardly ever finds anything whereas fritz
>almost always finds Smyslov's continuation.  Heck i have almost beat J6 in game
>in 30 myself.  Style hard to say not the top in any facet tactics endgame or
>positional play, but relatively good in all phases.
>
>Chess sytem tal 2 - Crazy
>
>Shredder 4 - haven't played it enough, but a great endgame player, maybe the
>best.
>
>Hiarcs 7 -  Well my mom always said if you can't say something nice then don't
>say anything at all ....  So all i'll say is that it's stronger than 50% of
>IM's.



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