Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 13:46:50 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 13:59:28, John Merlino wrote: >On April 04, 2001 at 07:40:13, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>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 > >Jonas, > >When you did these tests, did you have the patched version? Since the patch was >released, nobody has complained about "CM8's poor handling of time". > >jm No i must admit i did not run those tournaments with the patch, also i have just got the autoplayer up and running with CM8 (now patched) and i am at the moment playing a match 40/120 CM8 against Deep Firtz. CM8 on an athlon 1.3 ghz and Deep Fritz on an athlon 900 mhz and CM is looking good, so maby i'll prove myself wrong. I will do some heavy testing on CM8 versus my chessbase army and i will post results here and see how the patched ver. is doing :-) Regards Jonas
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