Author: Thom Perry
Date: 01:15:28 02/23/01
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On February 22, 2001 at 08:09:55, Albert Silver wrote: >On February 22, 2001 at 05:41:25, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On February 21, 2001 at 21:12:40, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>On February 21, 2001 at 20:42:35, Alastair Allan wrote: >>> >>>>Some personalities' playing levels in CM8000 have been validated against human >>>>players with known ratings. This is a valuable feature for players in the lower >>>>range of ability who would like to have a "dependable" estimate of where they >>>>stand. I don't know of any other chess program that has undergone this kind of >>>>ecological validation. I would venture to say that this unique feature is as >>>>good a selling point as any autoplayer function that might be considered in >>>>future releases. >>> I think it had the best rating on the P200MMX computers. >>>Thank you for saying so. However, there were only five personalities that were >>>used in the test: Chessmaster, Josh Age 9, Willow, Sonja and Skippy -- basically >>>personalities with ratings of approximately 2500, 2000, 1500, 1000 and 500 >>>respectively. With these five "real world" anchor points, the ratings data >>>probably became a fair bit more accurate, but I would still venture to say that >>>some, if not many, of the personalities are between 50 and 150 points off the >>>mark. >>> >>>As for it being a selling point, I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere on the box. >>>;-) >>> >>>jm >> >>Ok, I get it - five personalities were used in the test. Among them Chessmaster >>itself with rating of approximately 2500 (as stated above). But where does >>this Chessmaster rating of 2861, on my PIII 800, come from ? On the box is >>written "The Most Powerful Chess Engine Available on a PC". Oh, maybe CM >>increases its rating by beating me ?! ;) As stated at the back of the box: >>**Rated 1** "The Chessmaster engine achived the No 1 ranking by the SSDF". >> >>Sune > >Well, those ratings that are re-calculated according to processors speed tend to >be a little odd, no doubt about it. I remember when Ed's Rebel 8 came out with a >similar idea, it was going plain bonkers when done on an AMD processor. As for >the no.1 ranking on the SSDF, it's true that Chessmaster topped the list once >just before they made the move to K6-2/450s as I recall. It was best of the >P90s. > > Albert
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