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Subject: Re: Selectivity in Fidelity Chess Challenger 7

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 08:51:13 03/02/01

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On March 02, 2001 at 09:01:02, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Bert:
>Many many years ago, when animals talked and I had a CC7, I wrote a candid
>letter to Fidelity asking some question about this machine. I do not know why
>they answered with a detailed explanation of the levels of C7. Unfortunately,
>although I keep even commercial brochures related with chess computers, i did
>not keep this sheet, but I remember something about how the level operated. What
>I can recall is this:
>level 3, 30 seconds, "experienced" level, did three esxhaustive plies search.
>level 4, postal, 20 minutes per move, did an exhaustive full width search for
>four plies.
>level 6, three minutes per move, did five plies, the first three full widht and
>then massice prunning in fourth and fifth plies.
>level 7, 6 minutes per move, three full width and the last with prunning.
>Sorry I do not remember exactly how the prunning was done .
>Just historical -and as such, of course, distorted- info for you...
>Cheers
>Fernando

Hi!

I still have the instructions for both CC7 and CC10!
CC7:
level3  average 1min 20sec
level6  average 6min
level7  average 3min

CC10

level 10  average  3min
level  8  average 11min
level  6  average  1hour!  Mate in two level!

As you remember there was some selectivity in these higher levels as it
sometimes couldn't find a mate in two on higher levels!

I have also seen the selectivity described somewhere but I can't remember where.

Bertil



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