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Subject: Re: Opening trap that Chessmaster falls into.

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 12:52:24 06/21/00

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On June 21, 2000 at 14:46:11, Daniel Chancey wrote:

>1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O
>7.Qc2 Ne8 8.h4!?  Try analyzing it with your programs, including Chessmaster,
>and see if it finds that 8...f6? leads to 9.Bd3 h6 10.Bh7+ Kh8 11.Bxg6 hxg6
>12.Qg6 winning.  CMQUeen+ also falls into this trap which shows Chessmaster's
>lack of understanding on King Safety.
>
>Castle2000

The trap will never work since CMQueen+ will never select move 7.... Ne8  it
will always select h7 forcing an exchange of the bishop or to retrieve it to h4
which in either case my latest CMQueen+ settings can detect the consequences
even if you set it to move in 1 second per move using my AMD K6-2 500 Mhz.
Earlier you mentioned that you were going to modify the King Safety to CMQueen+
settings, under your CMQtest and if you improve it, than you were going to
renamed it CMQueen++.  If you take a close look at the CM6666 settings where the
King Safety and the Pawns Weakness is set to 134, as you can see an attempt to
make Chessmaster understand the King Safety was done already. And in another
posting that you made you also mentioned that CMQueen+ should be tested against
other tactical top programs, this is my logic to your request. If you take a few
minutes to go to Sarah's Chessfuns webpages, you will find under the Eastern Fun
Tourney under Group 2, in which Chessmaster 6666, Hiarcs 7.32, Shredder 4,
LG2000 v 2.5 and AnMon 506 were participating under 60 Mins/side games 8 rounds
two with each program, Chessmaster 6666 won under group 2 ahead
of two top programs like Hiarcs 7.32 and Shredder 4.  Finally, compare the other
60 Mins/side tourney for the Chessmaster 6K settings, in which Chessmaster,
CM6666, CMQueen+ and CM SS10 were participating, Keep in mind that CM6666 with
the same King Safety and Pawns Weakness set to 134 did not ended in the first
two position.

Pichard.




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