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From: jcsewell@disk.UUCP (jcsewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,rec.games.chess
Subject: Re: Re: Chess program recommendation wanted (for IBM)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 02:49:13 GMT
References: <1399@pedsga.UUCP> <6302@hub.ucsb.edu> <85.26ff813b@inland.com> <1990Sep27.121239.5258@cs.rochester.edu> <Ib0W=dW00WI_4xK0V5@an <12679@accuvax.nwu.edu>
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In article <12679@accuvax.nwu.edu> kaufman@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>pals@inland.com wrote:
(Chessmaster 2100 is a)
>>misleading name.  On a PC XT the program runs about 1900 USCF rating points,
>
>I may be wrong, but it seems to me that I read on the package that 2100 was its
>strength on a 20 MHtz 386 computer.
>

The box I have brags that they took Chessmaster 2000, added 10 man years of
work... that Fidelity Electronics is the "developers of the world's Only USCF
Certified Master Rated (2325) Chess Program!!!" ...

Lots of doubletalk and impress-me phrases, but nothing solid about the end
product itself.  <sigh>


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