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Subject: Re: Chess Genius 2 Free Download! Strong as hell! Yet no hype!??

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 20:48:40 04/07/01

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On April 07, 2001 at 20:57:32, Dana Turnmire wrote:

>  I'm not surprised at all.  I have a copy of it and on the one hour CCR test on
>a pentium 133 Genius 2 rated 2624. Chessmaster 5000 only rated 2576 on the same
>computer.
>  This may surprise you but on a pentium 500 Chessmaster 8000 only rates 2600
>and Chessmaster 5000 rates 2648.
>  I'm not sure how all this ties in but it does show that Genius is world class.
>  I've read most of the tests promote tactics over positional play so that may
>be why Chessmaster 5000 tests better than Chessmaster 8000 though I'm not sure
>this is the case.

I don't know where you're getting those figures as CM5000 does _not_ rate
itself.

Also, on a PIII 500 CM8000 rates itself at 2837 and CM7000 rates itself at 2641.

Terry



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