Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:09:01 03/01/01
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On February 28, 2001 at 22:54:29, Terry Ripple wrote: >Using an AMD Athlon 1,1 GHZ. When i run ChessMaster 8000 it calculates a rating >for itself at 2880. I was wondering if this was good for the speed i'am running >and was curious what other CM8000 owners were showing on their systems! > >Thankyou in advance for any information on this matter, > >Best regards, >Terry Once again, the bonus added to Chessmaster's rating is based on CURRENT "available" processor speed. This is why the rating bounces around a few points on the same system, depending on what else is running at the time (and what else Windows randomly decides to be doing when the test is done). RAM has nothing (directly) to do with it. I just did a simple test, and on my P3-600, I got a 2848, meaning that 124 points were added based on the test. This means that my processor is close to 4 times faster than the base processor, a P2-233, according to the test. If the bonus was changed to 30 points per doubling (as suggested elsewhere), then the bonus would be approximately 50 points, giving a result of around 2775 (USCF). I never really gave it any thought but it is probably a very good test of the efficiency of your machine. I knew it would be good for something! jm
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