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Subject: Re: PLEASE can someone test CM 6,7,8000 with other programs?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 03:31:46 04/01/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 01:39:10, Jorge wrote:

>On April 01, 2001 at 00:21:52, Lin Harper wrote:
>
>>On March 31, 2001 at 22:15:53, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>I'm longing to get to the bottom of this, and to know exactly where each of
>>>CM6000, CM7000 and CM8000 stand, in relation to each other, as well as compared
>>>to a selection of other programs, and how the three CMs compare in their
>>>comparisons to a few other programs.
>>>  Can someone do this one time, despite any difficulties involved?
>>>S.Taylor
>>     I've got CM6K and CM8K, no other recent programs. I've only got one
>>  computer, and that's the problem most people have. It's not good playing
>>  two programs against each other, with ponder off on both programs, IMO,
>>  because ponder on is the default on them all (I think), and that's the
>>  only way to give a program it's full rein. Different programs will not
>>  necessarily be handicapped equally with ponder off. That's where auto
>>  232 comes in.
>
>Yes, I have 2 compupters (PentIII 667 and Athlon 500, 128 Ram)and have both
>programs 6K and 8K installed. I don't have Auto232 though, so I play some of the
>games by hand.

That could do a good job, I think, if you play all play all 8 games, but 4 on
each computer (2x Black and 2x White), and switch computers, so that each has
the same benefits and the same slight handicaps. That will also show how much
the slight speed differences affect each, if at all.
S.Taylor



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