Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 01:04:08 11/17/00
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On November 16, 2000 at 16:22:01, john watson wrote: >Chessmaster (the personality) was caught cheating against Gandalf (the >program)today, or to be more precise he got a priviledged treatment from his own >GUI. >Chessmaster-Gandalf 16 1 3 >It's a pity I didn't keep the .pgn but it was a real mock-up. >Chessmaster must have hogged the PC. >The very same Gandalf , that is one of the champs of the Winboard and Chessbase >Gui's, with the same settings, made moves a kid wouldn't make. >Probably the default is: >Chessmaster always ponder on >The winboarders always ponder off >Also, it seems Chessmaster gets a time bonus for being a native personality , >what is apparently done on purpose to put Chessmaster in a good light and not >due to the fact that the path is a couple of folders shorter. >And when Chessmaster after all get's into a tough position, the operator is >asked to call the game a draw. He probably threw one game to keep him honest. >On 2 PC's of comparable strength the result of the tournament may be the >opposite. Hmmm I haven't seen ANYTHING like that in my tests, for example Yace just beat CM8000 and then drew it. JW
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