Author: John Coffey
Date: 16:20:39 07/24/00
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On July 24, 2000 at 15:04:54, blass uri wrote: >On July 24, 2000 at 13:30:06, Jari Huikari wrote: > >>On July 24, 2000 at 13:01:36, John Coffey wrote: >> >>>Only slightly related to the GUI is having a range of abilities from beginner >>>up to the top level that can be fine tuned. >> >>>I tried it on Chessmaster 6000, all the levels 1600 and below were dropping >>>pieces, and the next level up was smashing me at speed chess (my quick rating >>>is 1978.) > >I disagree. >I think that chessmaster6000 has all the range of abilities. > >I think that if the difference between the rating of 2 personalities is less >than 200 elo then the difference between the playing level of them is not very >big and there is no situation when the weaker personality has no chance against >you and you have no chance against the stonger one. > >Uri It is has been a long time since I tried Chessmaster 6000, but my experience with it was totally different than yours. I was playing it on a Pentium III 450, and the personalities up to about 1500 to 1600 would make some really gross blunders. On a weaker computer I noticed that these same personalities were 200 to 300 lower rated. When I tried the personality that was around the 1600 to 1700 range, all of a sudden I was getting punished pretty good. To me there appeared to be a huge difference between this level which didn't appear to make any tactical mistakes and the level beneath it which did drop pieces frequently. I sold my copy of Chessmaster 6000 because I didn't like it compared with Fritz. Otherwise I would try to find out what those personalites were called. I signed up to do the rating test for Chessmaster 8000. Here I noticed the same type of thing. There were 5 personalities that appeared to be near random move generators (to various degrees) and one personality that seemed to make no tactical errors (although positionally it was suspect.) john coffey
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