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Subject: Re: Estimated strength of CM6000

Author: walter irvin

Date: 19:23:10 09/25/00

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On September 25, 2000 at 14:17:46, Gerald Grimsley wrote:

>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

you think you got it ruff i have been playing CM on a 1.1ghz athlon and it must
be well over 2700 .im sure it would give even kasparov a bad case of heart burn
.i really dont see how a regular man can even come close to beast like this .



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