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Subject: Re: Chessmaster caught with his hand in the cookie bin

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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