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Subject: Re: CM Game

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:30:52 01/19/01

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On January 19, 2001 at 19:04:04, Sune Larsson wrote:

>Just finished a series of 20 rated games vs different personalities in
>CM8. They were played on a PIII 800 with 40 moves in 40 minutes.
>After winning 1 game against Roxy (1965), who played a very strange
>and weak chess, I played J.T (2733) once and 2 games vs Alekhine, Anand,
>Anderssen, Bird, Blackburne, Bogoljubow, Botvinnik, Capablanca and Euwe.
>All of these GM personalities seem to have the same rating - 2861 - on
>my computer. They do not show the same playing strength and in my opinion
>the average rating should be lowered at least 300 points. Now, these 20
>games gave me a performance rating of 2688 which also seems to be some
>3-400 points too high. For the record I'll mention that the time management
>seemed to be okey. Didn't notice any immediate replies when out of book -
>or any extraordinary fast play.
>
>The following game is played vs Chessmaster with hash 64 MB.
>It's a non rated rapid game 40 moves in 10 minutes. CM used
>about 6 minutes for the game but lost surprisingly easy. This
>game makes me wonder if something is wrong, cause I really shouldn't
>be able to treat CM8 this way.
>
>[Event ""]
>[Site ""]
>[Date "1-20-2001"]
>[Round ""]
>[White "Larsson"]
>[Black "Chessmaster"]
>[Result "1-0"]
>
>1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bd3
>Bd6 8. g3 O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nxc6 dxc6 11. f4 e5 12. f5 b5 13. g4 h6 14.
>g5 hxg5 15. Bxg5 Bc5+ 16. Kh1 Qe7 17. Rf3 b4 18. Na4 Ba7 19. Qe1 Rd8 20.
>Qh4 Rxd3 21. cxd3 Qd6 22. Rh3 Kf8 23. Qh8+ Ke7 24. Qxg7 c5 25. Rh6 Ke8
>26. Rxf6 Qf8 27. Qxf8+ Kxf8 28. Rd6 Bb7 29. Rg1 c4 30. Nb6 Bxb6 31. Rxb6
>Bc8 32. dxc4 b3 33. axb3 Ke8 34. Rd6 Bb7 35. Re1 a5 36. Bf6 a4 37. bxa4
>Rc8 38. Kg1 Bd5 39. Rxd5 Kf8 40. Red1 Kg8 41. Rd8+ Kh7 42. Rxc8 Kh6 43.
>Rh8# 1-0
>
>Sune Larsson

Once again, the moves/minutes time control is faulty. Try playing Chessmaster in
a G/30 or G/20 (which is roughly similar to 40/10), and I'm sure you will have a
tougher time.

jm



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