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In article <Ib0W=dW00WI_4xK0V5@andrew.cmu.edu>, lb2e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Louis Blair) writes:
> pals@inland.com wrote:
> >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.

If it gains 100 or more points going from an XT to an AT (a CPU
speedup around 2.5 or 3) then you should try it on a contemporary
system.

I just looked at a current ad (Computer Currents) which lists a
complete monochrome 33MHz (cached) 80386 system with 40MB hard
disk for $1895 -- a lot less than that XT started out to be.

That will give about a factor of 5 speedup over the AT. And for
the price those XTs and ATs were you can get a i486/25 machine
for another factor of 2.

Now, how does 2100 look?

> His main point was that "2100 is a terribly misleading name" and I
> agree with that.

Well, calling it _Chessmaster_ clearly implies that it plays at
master level as much as the 2100 implies a USCF rating.

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