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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 8000 stronger than imagined?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 11:51:04 03/04/01

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On March 04, 2001 at 13:41:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>In view of the critics heard I had not imagined that CM_8000 would have a chance
>against the best chess programs. In a match over only 10 games CM_8000 won
>against Fritz6b with the result of 6-4. Autoplayer, K6-3/450 (32 MB hash) vs
>K6-2/533 (26 MB hash). In the second match vs Junior6a it is again CM_8000 to
>win.
>Kurt

I concur . CM has a very bad press here much to my surprise . I even hear a lot
of CM fans telling their CM6000 settings are much better than the new version.

In my private games I see CM8000 winning and winning though ; maybe this is as I
play with "inferior" hardware : two PIII500s using Blitz or Fisher time control
( sth like Game in 1 hour ) .

There are two programs I miss very much in the SSDF list : CM8000 and Yace
0.99.x .

I think both would do _very_ well and CM8000 might very well be the next number
1.

I understand the SSDF wants to avoid playing games manually but with the various
Winboard autoplaying tools availlable they'll maybe rethink their decision .

pete





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