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Subject: Re: Match on chess.net Gambit Tiger vs Chessmaster 7000 Begins Saturday

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 15:19:04 11/24/00

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On November 24, 2000 at 18:06:58, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 24, 2000 at 17:58:33, Michael Cummings wrote:
>
>>On November 24, 2000 at 13:15:52, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On November 24, 2000 at 07:35:31, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 24, 2000 at 07:19:42, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 23, 2000 at 20:58:31, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 23, 2000 at 20:38:02, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There will be a 10 game match between Chessmaster 7000 and Gambit Tiger 1.0 on
>>>>>>>chess.net Saturday.  The time limit is G/60.  Chessmaster 7000 will use my book
>>>>>>>and the personality to be chosen hasn't been decided.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Prediction:  Gambit Tiger wins 6-1 with 3 draws
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Questions, comments, concerns?  Please reply or e-mail.  Complaints?  Please
>>>>>>>e-mail. (1 complaint will not stop the match this time.)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Castle2000
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Look like I will have to email you 500 times. Just kidding I am interested to
>>>>>>see the results. I bet Gambit wins 7-2-1. That is 7 wins, 2 draws, 1 loss.
>>>>>
>>>>>Looks like ChessMaster is the most underrated program. CM was tested
>>>>>once by SSDF and topped after that. Remember? It seems if a program
>>>>>does not have auto232 support you don't count.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I remember it but it was chessmaster6000 and chessmaster7000 is supposed to be a
>>>>downgrade because it can use only 1 Mbyte hash tables.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I guess that chessmaster7000 is 28 elo worse than chessmaster6000 and if you
>>>>consider the fact that chessmaster6000 is probably 100 elo worse than
>>>>gambittiger we can expect result that suggest 128 elo difference
>>>>7:3 for gambittiger is a good result because it suggests 160 elo difference.
>>>>
>>>>I do not have chessmaster7000 and my guess about 28 elo is based on the fact
>>>>that the ssdf used 16 mbytes for chessmaster6000 and I assume that doubling the
>>>>hash tables give 7 elo improvement.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>From what I recall, the SSDF uses machines with 16 MB of RAM, but did NOT change
>>>the default hash table size of 1MB. So, I'm going to go out on a limb and
>>>predict a LITTLE better result for my home team:
>>
>>For CM6K I am pretty sure that 16 megs of hash were used, on 64 meg machines
>>(just looking back at the current list)
>>
>>I do not think CM7K was ever even bothered to be tested by the SSDF, and I have
>>no idea what he means about chessmaster being downgraded, it was never tested on
>>the SSDF with 1 meg of hash.
>
>I assume the meaning is that since the engine is the same as CM6K
>running with smaller hash tables will make it weaker than CM6K.
>
>Sarah.

Ah I though he said that both CM7K and CM7K were being downgraded cause they
were the same.



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