Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 18:28:06 12/06/00
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On December 06, 2000 at 19:41:42, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 06, 2000 at 18:51:31, Michael Cummings wrote: > >>On December 06, 2000 at 17:09:36, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>On December 06, 2000 at 16:51:14, Roy Eassa wrote: >>> >>>>On December 06, 2000 at 00:24:32, Michael Cummings wrote: >>>> >>>>>...once I get my hands on >>>>>some of the more later programs and do some testing, I will be back to post how >>>>>CM8K is wiping butt of the other programs, which it will of course. >>>> >>>> >>>>Hmmm. And we can now expect your testing to be IMPARTIAL?? >>> >>>I can promise you that, given how NEGATIVELY vocal Michael was about CM7000, >>>that his testing will be QUITE impartial (unless the whole reason for his mood >>>swing is a VERY LONG periodic rate on his bi-polar disorder, coincidental with >>>every OTHER release of Chessmaster....) >>> >>>jm >> >>Plus its hard to lie when testing, cause 1000 other people can check your moves >>with the exact same programs on their own systems. >> >>I am sure that just like CM6K was winning, there were probably more supporting >>the other programs wanting CM6K to loose. When it was leading in a series of >>games against Fritz, I can recall many poeple were not liking that at all. >> >>Its very hard to make false results these days, especially when so many people >>can go over the moves themselves, as I stated above. > >I do not think that you are going to give false results but it is possible to >give false results by choosing only part of the games and people cannot prove >that the moves are wrong because the moves are right. > >You can use the positions after 10 moves from the next rounds of the fide >championship as the starting positions when chessmaster plays both sides and in >this case people can be sure that there is no problem in the choice of the >opening and checking the moves is enough. > >Uri Well I usually play one game, then switch colors then play the games from the end of the opening moves from the first game. I do it so both programs get plenty of chances to play their openings they want, that way there will always be two sets of games. Yes I could still replay games till one eventually went the way I would want, but I neither have the time, nor the desire to spend that long getting games to go my way if by chance they did not.
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