Author: Scott Woods
Date: 05:49:21 04/11/01
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Stuart,
Very simple really.
There have been a lot of posts on this site saying that CM8K is weak.
-"A larger opening book is the problem"
-"Weak in the endgame- needs table bases"
There have been questions over which patch has been tested etc etc.
Then there are posts of how well "The King" does when "Johan de Koenig" operates
the machine.
A bit confusing all round.
The proof of the pudding as they say.....
So I am volunteering myself to play 100 games of CM8K v1.02 against Fritz 6e.
because they are the 2 chess programs I currently own and I have to start
somewhere.
My budget doesn't run to identical hardware so I have given Fritz the better
machine. It has the benefit 64Mg more memory, twice the amount of hash tables -
a faster processor and tablebases.
- if the games look a bit one sided in favour of the faster hardware - I'll
swap the hardware at game 50.
When we get to 100 games - we should have a fair idea of how well CM8K plays
against Fritz 6e.
I will publish on this site every 10 games the results, settings, hardware specs
etc etc
Then I'll go out and buy "Deep Something or other" and/or some of the other
engines that are well respected on this site and repeat the exercise.
Will this prove which is the strongest chess engine in the market?
- Of course it won't.
What it will illustrate is how well CM8K plays against those other engines,
As for playing CM6K against CM8K - I will leave that for someone else as CM6K
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