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Subject: Re: Is there something faster than chessmaster in finding checkmates?

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:42:24 05/22/00

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On May 22, 2000 at 13:57:58, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Yes The King (CM) is IMHO the best fundamental engine.  By this I mean that it
>has the best search function and the best opportunity to improve.

The best opportunity to improve is for bad programs and not for good programs.

I do not know if it has the best search function but it seems to have the best
search funcction when the target is mate in the middle game.

  Of course
>this is open to debate and I do beleive that many have made great improvements
>over the last five years.  But there are few tactical positions where CM is
>beaten by another program.  And remember that CM is using an engine that was
>released in ~ September 1998 - De Konnig has The King 3.0 waiting for CM 8000.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Maughan

I do not expect the king 3 to be for chessmaster because chessmaster do not want
the best engine(they did not do it in chessmaster7000 so I have no reason to
believe that they will do it in chessmaster8000).

I also do not know if the king3 is better than previous versions (there were
cases when new versions were weaker)

I guess that the new king engine will always be a private program because it
seems that the programmer is not interested in doing it commercial

I know that chessmaster6000 was best in the past but I wanted to know if one of
the new programs(like Fritz6a) learned to be a better program in finding mates.
I know that Fritz6a is the best in tactics based on Enrique's test suite and I
wanted to know if it also can find faster mates in the middle game.

I expect programs to improve and being better than chessmaster6000 in finding
mates in the middle game is probably only a question of time.

Uri



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