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Subject: Estimated strength of CM6000

Author: Gerald Grimsley

Date: 11:17:46 09/25/00


Hello, I have been playing against Chessmaster 6000 on a Pentium 133 machine
with 64MB RAM.  I am an experienced tournament player, both OTB and Postal (OTB
about 1800), and the program beats me like I stole something.  Even the weakened
personalities in the 1800-2000 rating range seem unusually tough to finish off
in "rated" play.  For example, several of the personalities play "intentionally"
poor in the opening.  I usually gain a substantional positional advantage, or
maybe a pawn or two up, then, all of a sudden, the program plays quite strong.
Am I imagining all of this?  I have all of the standard DOS programs, Fritz3,
Rebel10, MCP8, etc. and it seems to me that CM6000 is just as strong as these
against humans, especially in G/60 or less.  Any guesses for the estimated USCF
rating of the CM personality on this machine?  Also, are the "personality"
ratings USCF or international ELO estimates?
Thanks in advance,
Gerald



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