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

Author: Jorge

Date: 10:37:31 04/01/01

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On April 01, 2001 at 06:31:46, stuart taylor wrote:

>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
All right, I'm curious to find out too. Let me know which settings (Default? for
both 6K and 8K) and Time control I can use. I will post the games here.



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