Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 19:17:47 05/26/04
If you take a look at the ratings asigned to cheap chess computers by our pals of ICDchess store -the only one that does so with an eye in objetivity and not hoopla- you will find something I consider amazing: they are uncredible weak. My question is; how you still can find 1200 Elo machines, that is to say, not stronger than the firsts models of the beginnings of the 80's, in these days? It is that manufacturers are just putting inside new plastic boxes the very same programs they have in stock since 25 years ago? Are soooo paltry the avances in programming that if you does not get a powerfull PC you still get weak scores, exception made of a handful of expensive computers? Any cheap, vulgar, average, less than average program can get at least around 1800 Elo. Most of freeware engines are stronger than that. They are so even running in slow machines. So, is it that if you stuck to a 20 Mhz processor you cannot get something decently sgtrong? Of course not; there are machines running at 16 Mhz with decent force. So there,at the end, there is people that dare to offer 1200 elo machines just because... So they coldly aim to a market of absolute patzers that will be happy wwith those duds. Is it a an acceptable policy? Just because you are a patzer to offer you a 20 years obsolete program? Your vision, please fernando
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