Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 15:07:24 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 12:57:52, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 22:39:30, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>1)- I own CM5500. How stronger is the CM6000/7000 engine? >> >>2)- What is the rating I can expect of my CM5500 playing on K6-II 300MHz, 128 MB >>RAM, Win 95 ? >> >>A. Ponti > >I'm not entirely sure but I believe that was the same engine that is still >present in CM7000. CM8000 will have a somewhat stronger engine (a bit faster >anyway) probably the same as The King that won Dutch championship 1998, or maybe >with a few small improvements? > >CM only allows manual games so maybe they could use a volunteer for that in the >SSDF? I think it is safe to say that CM could still do well on the hardware you >mention, the top programs don't differ that much anyway in SSDF results. I read >that Johan de Koning did develop his engines on K6. Just extrapolate from P90 >results and then subtract for inflation.. How much? Hard to say. > >Eelco Even if they bring out CM8000, they will have to make a few changes for the more serious chess player, that being, able to change the hash settings. Having them just as a default will limit this program greatly. It is unacceptable, they should at least at this option to the menu. I mean how hard could it be, in CM6000 it was just a matter of writing it into the ini file. They can do it too save all the other settings, a little option in the menu for this, would not be so hard, you would not think
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