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KOMPUTER KORNER'S GOLD MEDAL AWARDS- Version 13

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Komputer Korner

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Dec 16, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/16/96
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Gold Medal Chess Software by category - Version 13

1) Chess instruction for beginner- Chess Mates
2) Chess instruction intermediate level - Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess
3) Chess instruction advanced level - Chess Mentor 1.4
4) Chess Diagram Piece Font - Hastings Alpine Electronics Font
5) Chess Diagram Piece Font- Freeware - TASCBV Chess figurines
6) Internet chess program interface - Slics 2.3j
7) Email chess recording program - Chess Recorder 6.0
8) Chess playing engine strength- Rebel 8.0
9) Chess playing engine-best features- Genius 5
10) Chess playing engine - best learning features- M-Chess Pro 6.01
11) Chess playing engine - mass market value line- Extreme Chess
12) Chess playing engine - freeware - Crafty 11.11
13) Chess playing engine - OS 2 - U-Chess 1.17
14) Database program top of the line- ChessBase 6.0
15) Database program -value priced- Clubmate 2.4
16) Opening book editor - Bookup WIN 1.5.2
17) Best chesstree based database- Tascbase 2.0
18) All around best chess program - Nimzo 3.5

It is important to realize that even though Nimzo 3.5 does not
score at the top for any individual category, it does so many things so
well
for the serious chess student, that it rates No. 1 overall.

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Komputer Korner

The komputer that kouldn't keep a password safe from
prying eyes, kouldn't kompute the square root of 36^n,
kouldn't find the real motive in ChessBase and missed
the real learning feature of Nimzo.

Jouni Uski

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Dec 18, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/18/96
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There is soon own category to all programs, I fear!

Jouni Uski

Komputer Korner

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Dec 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/22/96
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Jouni Uski wrote:
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> There is soon own category to all programs, I fear!
>
> Jouni Uski

I know. I know. It is hard to keep the programmers happy but at the
same time let the consumer know what is good and what isn't. I am
slowly losing a little of my professed love for Nimzo even though
it has a lot of good features. The real difficulty is trying to
slot a good program that doesn't win outright any individual
category. However even if it ever would end up as a different
category for each good program, that wouldn't be so bad. The
consumer would know what each program specializes in. The Awards
so far have been remarkably free from criticism, so I guess that
means they are reasonably accurate as to what the best programs are.

Robert Hyatt

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Dec 22, 1996, 3:00:00 AM12/22/96
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Komputer Korner (kor...@netcom.ca) wrote:

The only place you will get into trouble with your awards is when you
pick an "overall winner." :) Different people want different things in
a program. Some want a nice gui, some want overnight analysis of their
games, some want the strongest possible engine, some want the best
engine/database integration, etc. Giving the best in each category is
a great idea. Giving an "overall" winner is a pig that won't fly... :)

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