Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:46:30 11/15/00
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On November 15, 2000 at 00:25:48, John Merlino wrote: >On November 14, 2000 at 22:21:27, Paul Doire wrote: > >>I received CM 8000 today. After install I immediately played 8 games at work >>,got home played 6 games against CM6000. Results 13-.5-.5. >>The hash is adjustable on CM 8000 and comes set at only 1MB. I don't know what >>the hash is on CM 6000 factory install, but I'm hoping it is substantially >>higher than 1MB,and that is why CM 8000 loses badly to CM 6000. >>To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement, after all THE KING took >>second place at the DUTCH 2000. >>My matches were on the same machine-2 windows open.Hardware 542Mhz Celeron,128MB >>ram, >>20 Gig HD,8MB Video on Win98 SE O/S. >>I tried CM 8000 at factory 1MB Hash,and the last 3 games were at 2MB Hash >> >>Any Comments ,Help would be appreciated >>Thanks >>Paul Doire > >The problem is that you are playing your games on a single machine. Versions of >Chessmaster BEFORE 8000 had the engine embedded directly in the main program, >meaning no task switching had to occur and the engine got a larger percentage of >the CPU time that the main program got. Also, as mentioned in another reply to >your post, CM6000 is a CPU hog and is not kind to ANY other program running. > >Chessmaster 8000 is actually TWO programs (the main app and the Winboard >engine), which are communicating with each other. Therefore, the engine in >CM8000 is not getting as much CPU time as the CM6000 version. > >One other person has already reported this (actually he was INCENSED and claimed >foul), and then, after he was set straight about the problem with one machine, >he started testing with two machines. He wrote back to say that he was no longer >angry and was pleased with the results (and, the program in general). > >Hopefully, this answers your concerns, > >jm So what would be the score between cm6000 and cm8000 when done right? S.Taylor
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