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

Author: Dana Turnmire

Date: 21:26:36 04/07/01

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On April 07, 2001 at 23:56:20, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On April 07, 2001 at 23:48:40, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Sorry I read it too fast! I see what your saying now. The ratings are from the
>1hr. CCR Rating Test.
>I'm surprised at these results for CM8000 though! Is it the patched version?
>
>Terry

  I believe when I did the entire test for CM8000 the patch was not out.
However I ran a couple of the positions recently with the patch to see if CM8000
would do any better but it didn't.  However, I didn't do the entire test, just a
couple of different positions.



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