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From: ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Chess program recommendation wanted (for IBM)
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.121239.5258@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 27 Sep 90 12:12:39 GMT
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Reply-To: ray@cs.rochester.edu (Ray Frank)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept
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In article <85.26ff813b@inland.com> pals@inland.com writes:
>Chessmaster 2100 is hardly any improvement over the 2000.  I bought it
>and felt terribly ripped off.  Ditto Sargon IV.  Also, 2100 is a terribly
>misleading name.  On a PC XT the program runs about 1900 USCF rating points,
>maybe 2000 or a bit more on an AT.

Where did you get the idea that Chessmaster 2000 or 2100 had any kind of 
rating at all let alone one of 1900 or 2000?  If it was as high as 2000
then you shouldn't feel ripped off.  A rating this high for home computers
is very respectable.  But I seriously doubt that Chessmaster is as high
as 1900 or 2000.  
Do you have any documentation that says these are the official USCF ratings?


ray