Author: Alan Grotier
Date: 20:07:25 05/26/04
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On May 26, 2004 at 22:17:47, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>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
Fernando,Bonjour.I hope I have understood you correctly.
Your objection is promoting old machines and claimimg
them to be current top of the line machines.
Of course that should not be allowed.
What can be done to stop it? I am not sure.
But I do question your word "duds".
I contend that even the so called old machines will
win very often against a so called "patzer".
But then again I have a soft spot for these old
machines being one myself!
La belle province Quebec ........Alain
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