Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 16:38:43 09/29/00
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On September 29, 2000 at 16:04:24, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On September 29, 2000 at 14:50:05, John Merlino wrote: > >>Just in case anybody is curious, and since some of you asked for some test >>games, I ran a 16-game tournament at G/30 overnight with Chessmaster 8000, Beta >>6 (usually there are about 10-12 Beta versions before the product becomes a >>"Release Candidate"). The development team believes, though, that the version of >>The King is now final, unless something really ugly shows up. >> >>These test games were run by me, on my PIII-600, with default settings for both >>engines, and were not requested (or perhaps not even SANCTIONED) by the >>development team. Nor are they probably very interested in them. But, here they >>are, for those who might want to draw some conclusions.... >> >>Chessmaster +6 =6 -4 9.0 >>Crafty 17.13 +4 =6 -6 7.0 >> >>Some of you may notice, in the games that follow, that Chessmaster will win if >>Crafty resigns (since the UI now understands the "resign" command from an XBoard >>engine). But Chessmaster (as always) NEVER resigns, meaning that any opponent >>will have to follow through to mate. Not that this makes any difference in the >>score. It just means that the games take a little longer. >> >>Enjoy.... >jm > > >It is more interesting to find out how CM8000 score against the best by the SSDF >Fritz 6a, which is how most programmers test their chess Programs, since Fritz >6a has become the chess Benchmark for the best or trying to become the best in >P.C. Chess softwares. > >Pichard. > I think that is a wild overstatement. Christophe Théron has said that he tests against human players from his local chess club. I guess that most programmers test against a wide variety of engines, and those who have the chance play agains many strong human players (like crafty). If I were a chess programmer, I would be far more interested in winning computer tournaments than in topping the SSDF list (and so I would focus more on Shredder than on Fritz). José.
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