Author: John Merlino
Date: 16:12:25 01/07/00
In a chat with one of the developers of Chessmaster, he told me that during the course of the creation of several of the new personalities for CM7000, they came across one that they couldn't use in the program (for various reasons), but that they felt it MIGHT be noticeably stronger than the Chessmaster personality. Unfortunately, they couldn't get enough testing on it to determine its true strength, so Johan's preferred settings (the ones used for the Chessmaster personality) remain the ones in the program. BUT, here's how to create this potentially very strong personality: Take the Josh, Age 12 personality and put Strength to 100. That's it! Apparently, according to the developer, this personality scored +61 -18 =14 against opponents rated 2200 and above. This also included 2 wins and 2 draws against the Chessmaster personality (hence, the "not enough testing"). These games were also only at Fischer 5/3 time controls, so that's where YOU guys come in. It doesn't sound like the development team is going to follow up on this, because of the completely new version of The King that's going to be in the next version of CM, but I thought you guys might like to run with this and do some SERIOUS testing. Apparently this personality was designed by Josh Waitzkin himself, and the strength was then lowered by the development team to get his appropriate rating when he was 12 years old. But, just for fun, they ran a few tournaments with his cranked up personality and were quite stunned. Anybody up to the challenge? Many thanks in advance for satisfying my curiosity. jm
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