Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 04:40:13 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 06:36:47, Daniel Chancey wrote: >The CM program is not weak but it's not a good anti-fritz program. Also the >personality used is slightly inferior. CM has a small book, no book >learning, no tablebases. Much of Chessmaster was focused to help human players >inprove their game. When the best Chessmaster personality is found, a >match between Deep Fritz under same conditions is necessary. > >Castle2000 Why all these excuses as to why CM8 plays poorly, you are right it was intended to be a learning program and it does a heck of a job at just that, but then again it takes away from the playing strenght, which becomes more and more obvious. The idea of testing a program in the first place is to test the strenght of a prog, and you dont see Deep Fritz needing anti CM8, CT14, GT2, Nimzo8 etc in order to be a dominating factor in the world of cpu chess! When i tested Gandalf against CM8 gandalf absolutly crushed CM8, so did Crafty1714, yace and wbnimzo2000b, CM8 simply failed to win a tournament against any of the above mentioned, this was at long tounament time controls with a litlle fischer time added to compensate for CM8's poor handling of time. On my T-bird 1.3ghz 512 ram. If you manage to find a setting that will match the play of Deep Fritz (which i doubt) or any other top prog, then it would suggest that CM8 play very unbalanced if it needs a different setting for each top program. If CM9 will support book.lrn, tb's etc. have a better book and is bugfree to the point where it pays to buy the prog, then i think it might be up there with the other progs! Regards Jonas
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