Author: walter irvin
Date: 10:41:27 12/02/00
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On December 02, 2000 at 02:21:16, eric guttenberg wrote: >I hope this doesn't sound silly but I'm beginning to wonder if it is possible >that Chessmaster 8000 with White is a stronger program than with Black. > >I played a series of games between CM8000 on my Celeron 333mhz vs. a "lowly" >dedicated computer, Berlin Pro. My other top programs, Genius 5, Fritz 5.32, >Hiarcs 7.32 and Chessmaster 6000 had collectively won almost every game >at game/30 against Berlin. CM6000 had, for example, scored 18-0 with 2 draws. >Fritz 5.32 scored 27-0 with 3 draws. > >So when I began to play games between Berlin and CM8000, it surprised me that >after 17 games CM8000 had scored 11-1 with 5 draws. But then I saw that >with White CM8000 had won all 8 games-all of them decisively. But with >Black it had only scored 3-1, with 5 draws. Moreover, in 2 of the draws >CM8000 had to make a comeback to escape luckily. > >So is this a case of a coincidence and too few games. Or is it possible >that CM8000 is a little schizophrenic? in chess having white is a advantage , now if a program does unusually bad you would think that the oppening book is the first place i would look . > >eric
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