Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:15:54 06/02/00
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On June 02, 2000 at 17:48:38, Marc van Hal wrote:
>I already can tell you now that in the way you used Chessmaster queen+ also
>Chessmaster wins against Rebel tigre
>The reason is simple it is not so much the chess engine wich slows down the
>other engine extremely
>It's the clock if you pause the game after every move you make you shall see
>that the result will change a lot
>This is how I always play the games on 1 comp give the engine some time to wake
>up about a minute then make the move the first program played after going back
>to the other game then do the same for the other program
>This is the only way to get the right results.
>I have never seen games wcih where diferent from the games I have played so
>that's proof enough
>If you use a program with more hash tables give the program the opertunety to
>fill up it's hashtable (be sure the harddisk doesn't spin anymore)
>
>Marc van Hal
In the second match (the more recent), the two programs (CM and Rebel Tiger)
were playing on separate computers.
I think what you say is globally right when CM and the opponent are on the same
computer: ChessMaster eats a lot of CPU and it's difficult to make things fair.
Didzis Cirulis has explained this on his web site:
http://open.konts.lv/usr/Didzis/index.html
Christophe
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