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Subject: Re:Time issues (ChessMaster 8000)-John

Author: John Merlino

Date: 20:37:23 12/02/00

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On December 02, 2000 at 23:00:01, James T. Walker wrote:

>Hello,
>I have been playing more games at a time control of G/1hour against Rebel
>Century 3.0.  I'm now convinced that there is nothing wrong with Chessmasters
>time control at G/minutes.  It is very conservative but in comparison to say
>Rebel Century 3.0, they come out very similiar sometimes.  I would prefer to see
>a program use more time in the middle game but both of these programs seem to
>save a little more for the endgame than most programs especially one like Chess
>Tiger.  I think I saw too many 40/60 games to begin with and when the first two
>games by CM8K at G/60 were also very fast I was convinced that something was
>wrong.  That was before I saw that it definitely had problems at "moves/minutes"
>settings.  By the way the score is 3.5-2.5 favor CM8K at G/60.
>Jim

This agrees with what the development team is seeing. Problems with
"moves/minutes" and "seconds per move" (both of which are now fixed), but no
problems with any other time controls.

jm




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