Author: Mark Young
Date: 07:05:04 08/05/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 09:22:40, blass uri wrote: > >On August 05, 1998 at 09:05:59, Kim Hvarre wrote: > >>On August 05, 1998 at 07:41:47, Freddie wrote: >> >>>Shaun, >>> >>>I was surprised by a previous posting where you said that Chessmaster 5500 would >>>beat Fritz 5 or Rebel 9 on a Pentium II 400 computer. Aren't the latter two >>>programs supposed to be superior in both knowledge and search speed? I would >>>appreciate it if you or someone else could explain how and why this would be >>>possible. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Freddie. >> >>It is'nt - quote SSDF (uh...): >> >>snip >>10 Rebel 9.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2448 29 -29 572 52% 2436 >> >>12 Rebel 8.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2447 20 -20 1193 58% 2388 >> >>13 Hiarcs 5.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2432 39 -38 343 61% 2355 >> >>14 Genius 5.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz 2428 22 -22 1044 53% 2410 >> >>15 MChess Pro 6.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2421 20 -20 1230 52% 2409 >> >>16 Genius 3.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2407 27 -26 719 62% 2320 >> >>16 MChess Pro 5.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2407 26 -25 759 62% 2318 >> >>18 Genius 4.0 DOS Pentium 90 MHz 2406 24 -24 877 61% 2328 >> >>19 Rebel 7.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2403 26 -25 749 61% 2322 >> >>20 Junior 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2395 26 -27 692 46% 2420 >> >>21 Hiarcs 4.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2394 25 -25 766 55% 2359 >> >>22 Shredder 1.0 Pentium 90 MHz 2388 59 -58 145 53% 2369 >> >>*23 Chessmaster 5000 Pentium 90 MHz 2387 49 -45 240 67% 2262* same >>engine as CM5500!! > >If it is the same engine then what is the difference? > For Chessmaster to be one of the strongest programs you can not use default settings. It will get killed. The opening book sucks and its default settings are not set up to get the most out of the engine. But if you know what you are doing you can get much higher ratings then what SSDF shows. Many people besides me have shown this to be true. >regards >Uri >> >>regards, >>kim
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