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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 1/0 tournament

Author: Larrry Smith

Date: 19:15:51 05/29/00

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On May 29, 2000 at 13:16:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On May 29, 2000 at 11:30:35, Larrry Smith wrote:
>
>>Here are the results for a Chessmaster 6000 tournament, with all games at one
>>minute. The surprise winner was Shakespeare, I think because he was able to
>>promote several pawns in the hasty end-game play.
>>
>>Shakespeare: +5 -0 =1 5.5/6
>>Capablanca:  +4 -2 =0 4/6
>>Chessmaster: +4 -2 =0 4/6
>>Test One:    +2 -3 =1 2.5/6
>>CMQueen+:    +2 -3 =1 2.5/6
>>Seirawan:    +2 -4 =0 2/6
>>Slick:       +0 -5 =1 0.5/6
>
>When I saw this Posting we Stopped the Mini match between Tiger vs CMQueen+ for
>30 minutes, and in the meantime we tested the Shakespeare Setting vs CMQueen+
>using the AMD K62-500 Mhz 10 games at 1 minute per side.
>
>we got a different results:
>
>CMQueen+:      W5 L4 D1
>Shakespeare:   W4 L5 D1
>
>I believe you need to check the Setting carefully, they are very close in blitz,
>but as you increases the time you will see that CMQueen+ Settings performes
>better. In those games that CMQueen+ lost, 2 of them was due to the time, but by
>material it was way ahead.

I think CmQueen+ is an excellent personality -- I have seen it outperform almost
all of Chessmaster's "grandmaster" personalities in the longer games.  I am not
convinced, however, that CmQueen+'s settings are good for the very fast games,
as it was defeated handily in my game/one minute tournament and barely beat
Shakespeare in your ten-game test. Considering that Shakespeare's "strength of
play" setting is only 82 compared to CmQueen+'s 100, the results are notable.



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