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Subject: Re: Shep Championship 1999 Announcement

Author: Brian Smith

Date: 06:38:59 06/08/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 09:04:36, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On June 08, 1999 at 08:54:02, Shep wrote:
>
>>
>>                        Shep Championship 1999
>>                        Official  Announcement
>>
>>The Shep Championship 1999 will commence soon at
>>Shep's Computer Chess Site.
>>
>>Here are the full details:
>>
>>Starting date:  Probably June 21st, 1999. Estimated tournament length
>>                is 6-8 weeks.
>
>[snip]
>
>> Chessmaster 5555        At +45 =33 -17, this beast has the best
>>  (Johan de Koning,      40/120 record at SCCS ever and has rated
>>   NED)                  1st or 2nd in every standard tournament
>>                         except last year's championship where it
>>                         got an unlucky 6th place.
>>                         Like no other program, CM masters the art
>>                         of slowly grinding its opponents down,
>>                         gradually increasing its positional advantage.
>>                         And of course it is a master tactician as well.
>>                         CM 5555 is a modified CM 5500 personality
>>                         created by myself, based on the "Walter-Pilz
>>                         settings" originally intended for CM 4000 Turbo.
>
>[snip]
>
>Shep...
>Would it be helpful if we donated (and sent to you Express Mail) a
>Chessmaster 6000 for this tournament?
>- Steve (ICD/Your Move)
>P.S. If yes, please send me your mailing address.


I'm pretty sure he already has CM6k but got getter results with his own setup
(CM5555).  CM6k seemed to do very well though in SSDF games, Shep.  Maybe you
should give it another shot, or were your results really that bad (how many
games have you played with the new version?)?



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