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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 1/0 tournament

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 19:41:03 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 both you guys need to realise that playing at 1 minute a game with such
few games played means virtually nothing.

I have tested CM personalities long enough to see that at faster time controls
that even if two personalities play 50 games against each other, that the next
50 are most likely to be totally different.

I used to play allot of 25 minute a game matches. Only to see one personality
win 6 in a row, then go on to loose the next 9. And out of say 50 games, maybe
12 of them were usually doubles.

I have seen huge swings go against personalities that have been doing well.
Thats why I look at all these games played with a little interest.

But when I saw that you stopped your mini match and played 10 small games and
posted your results, I had to speak up and say, that with the limited amount of
games, trying to argue the results is absurd.

First off playing at that time control is a waste of time IMHO. There is no time
for the setting to get down and be of any use.

I had personalities 300 points lower than the chessmaster winning some games.

I have learned after playing well over 1000 games are varying speeds to give up,
cause I am no closer to seeing which settings are the best.



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