Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:15:21 03/14/01
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On March 14, 2001 at 07:42:02, Walter Eigenmann wrote:
>In Chessmaster8000, the historical "Personalitys" seems to be perfectly
>simulated! -
>
>1914 met in St. Petersburg the entire elite at that time to a tournament, which
>wrote chess history.
>The Top-Fives constituted afterwards the total winner in a double-round-final
>("Swiss system").
>
>The rank list was:
>1. Lasker
>2. Capablanca
>3. Aljechin
>4. Tarrasch
>5. Marshall
>
>I made myself now the fun to after-pass on this final with the Chessmaster8000
>on my PIII/833Mhz/256MB,
>whereby the appropriate "Personalitys" (in each case with 64MB Hash) was used.
>Considering time per game: 20min (Ponder off).
>
>The rank list "today":
>1. Lasker
>2. Capablanca
>3. Aljechin
>4. Tarrasch
>5. Marshall
>
>Really amazingly!
>Or only coincidence?
>
>Would be interesting to execute the same experiment with still different
>historical tournaments.
>
>A radix complement for the programmers of Chessmaster!
>
>Greeting: Walter
I would not be honest if I did not attribute this result to a good amount of
luck. Or, maybe, the person who designed the personalities (GM Larry Evans)
knows more about computer chess than he thinks he does! :-)
Thanks for the compliments!
jm
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