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Subject: Re: The strongest chess software?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:47:50 12/06/00

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On December 06, 2000 at 08:19:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 06, 2000 at 06:15:24, alfred palang wrote:
>
>>Chessmaster 8000 is a great improvement over CM6000! Everytime I play with
>>CM8000, it gives a good feeling.  The graphics are better and livelier for me
>>and the engine is not a memory hog.
>
>I am interested only in the strength of the engine.
>
>Are there results of games between chessmaster6000 and chessmaster8000 with the
>same openings book?
>
>If there are results then I am interested to know them.
>
>Uri

The development team did do some testing with games between CM8000 and CM7000,
using default settings and a relatively fast time control (I think it was G/15,
or something like that), and CM8000 came out acceptably ahead. I do not have the
games or the actual results, however, and the testing was very informal (because
of what is described in the next paragraph). There was no testing between CM8000
and CM6000.

To be blunt, with the move to Winboard compatibility, this was really a case of
"burning your bridges after you cross them", so Johan's engine was taken on good
faith (as it always is without fear) as an improvement over previous versions.
The 2nd place in the Dutch Open didn't hurt either.... ;-)

jm



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