Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 08:12:00 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 11:01:26, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Last friday my friend Glen asked me if he can use my CM6000 and my AMD Athlon >in order to pit these two versions of Chessmaster against his AMD Duron 800 MHz. >I agreed to let him play a very short match of only ten games, just to get an >idea of how much stronger the new version is. He was very excited to let me know >that his newer version of CM8000 which he got for only $14.95 at a bargain >was showing an improvement from the previous CM6000 version at a slower time >control. I told him that if he would let the match continue for a least 200 >games then we can get a better picture, but I was not going to lend him my >computer for two weeks, which is the minimum that it would take to test these >two programs at that time control. But anyway, I get the feeling that CM8000 is >probably 50 rating point stronger using longer time control. > PS: I forgot to mentioned that he used my AMD Athlon 800 MHz, and that the price according to Glen was almost the same as the standard price after shipping and handling. >Pichard.
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