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Subject: Re: CM8000 or the beta version should Participate in WMCCC

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:33:20 08/11/00

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On August 11, 2000 at 16:17:23, Imran Hendley wrote:

>On August 11, 2000 at 15:53:12, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On August 11, 2000 at 07:44:50, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On August 10, 2000 at 21:51:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>It is a pity that with so many Chessmaster followers, the King Version 3.0 or
>>>>CM8000 beta will not be participatingin the WMCCC.
>>>>
>>>>Pichard.
>>>
>>>Apart from the fact that i don't give it a single % chance to finish #1
>>>there, if you pay $500 entry fee, i'm sure Johan will participate.
>>>I guess that johan doesn't join because chessmaster doesn't pay
>>>his entry fee, otherwise he probably would have a shot at joining.
>>>
>>
>>I give Chessmaster more than 45% of  winning the match giving the same hardware
>>of the leading number 1 program rated by SSDF which is Fritz 6a as you noticed
>>CM6000 was never tested using the AMD 450 Mhz 128 SDRAM, but on the 200 Mhz
>>pentium it scored just a few rating points less than the leading number 1.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>Yes... it did. The leading number 1 was Fritz 5.32 which is now 78 points behing
>Fritz 6a on the 450 Machines. And there is no way of predicting Chessmaster
>8000's winning chances without knowing the strength of the new engine. I don't
>know where you got 45% from, because the engine hasn't been released yet. It may
>have improved a lot less than 80 rating points, or maybe even more. There's no
>way of knowing without sufficient testing.

>
I am not allowed to provided you information based on the beta version of
CM8000, but it has scored much better than Fritz 6a using my Athlon 800 Mhz at
G/60.  That is all that you will know from me.

Pichard.

>>
>>>$500 entry fee is quite a lot. I'm secretary of a big chessclub.
>>>We organize a lot of tournaments. With $500 entry fee i could live
>>>quietly the rest of my life.



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