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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