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Subject: Re: Good News (for CM) regarding SSDF's CM8000 Testing

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 15:55:33 04/11/01

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On April 11, 2001 at 14:46:16, Peter Berger wrote:

>Yippie :-) !!!
>
>In fact I was already thinking something odd was happening on my computer and to
>my sense of judgement as CM performed so well here.
>
>I even remember I thought of sending a similar tip to Thorsten Czub when he
>started his Millenium tournament but then I thought : "hey , noone but silly me
>will stumble across this" ( as this confused me , too , in the beginning ) .
>
>Cheers.
>
>pete

I find all of this hard to believe.   Is the SSDF libing in a cave?  This
problem was mentioned here in great detail in the original version and the
change made with the patch.  Effectively doubling the speed of CM8K will help
some but I suspect this will be partly offset by the "Learning" features of it's
opponents.  I don't know how you can effectively test CM8K vs the Tigers since
the Tigers refuse to play CM8K from the black side.  Maybe the Chessbase version
will work better in this respect than the Lockasoft version.  Also I believe
CM8K fans should not get too excited about it's prospects on the SSDF list.  I
believe the other programs have improved more than Chessmaster in the last 2
years.  Mostly because of the lack of book learning,lack of a better opening
book and lack of tablebases.  I hope I'm wrong but my own testing is the reason
for my skepticism.  I feel sure it will not be number 1.
Jim



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