Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 10:55:04 04/15/01
CM8_Utzinger the strongest chess program of the world?? The longer I am playing with CM8_Utzinger the more I am convinced that with these settings the CM belongs to the strongest program of the world. Never in my live have I seen a program with a better start against all its competitors. At Blitz there are stronger settings (for example CM 8777 from St. Kleinert) but my CM8_Utzinger settings seems to become much stronger at higher time controls: a minimum of 30 seconds per move is required, even better are time controls at 60 seconds and more. The prove are my matches 40/40 and so far CM8_Utzinger has won all matches over 10 games: the "loosers" are ChessTiger13, Fritz6b, Gandalf_432h, Junior6a, Nimzo732. At the time of writing CM8_Utzinger leads with 5.5-0.5 against Hiarcs732!! And 1-0 was the result against Shredder4 in the first game. It is somewhat hardly believable that CM8_Utzinger obtains such good results. And despite the tremendous success I am still suspicious and waiting for a couple of games that CM8_Utzinger is loosing. How long have I to wait for such a happening? My experience has shown that one day it will (must) happen ..... One thing is to mention: with my settings the program's evaluation score is in most cases much higher than that of its opponent. CM8_Utzinger may have a positional advantage showing +1.85 against -0.45 but such games do seldom end with a draw, no the normal result is 1-0 in favour of CM8, but of course: no rule without exception. Normally, I do not play CM8_Utzinger vs other Chessmaster personalities. And this for good reasons. After having made about 120 test positions with various personalities (CM8 original, Rubidio, Schüle, Kleinert, El Rey) the most astonishing result was that it was not possible to say for sure which setting is the best. Therefore I prefer playing matches against other chess programs and here one can see the difference much easier. And by the way it's more fun. And last but not least: CM8_Utzinger plays an exciting chess. In almost every game unbalanced material is on the board, the program likes passed pawns and knows to handle such situations very well. It can also be said that CM8_Utzinger is a good attacker and what is also important, the program is even dangerous in "hopeless" positions. If someone is interested in the games, please mail to kut@freesurf.ch And now the results of all games played by CM8_Utzinger: Program Games CM Opp CM % TC Hardware / HT AnMon 5.10 3 3 0 100% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch Chess Tiger 13 10 6 4 60% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 CM 6555 3 1.5 1.5 50% Av 30' Dual Athl 1,2/128 CM 8555 6 4.5 1.5 75% Game15' P3 800/32 EngMatch CM8 El Rey 6 4 2 67% Game15' P3 800/32 EngMatch Deep Fritz 1 0 1 0% Av 60' Dual Athl 1,2/128 Fritz 6b 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 Gandalf 4.32h 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch Hiarcs 7.32 6 5.5 0.5 92% 40/40 2x Duron 800/64 Junior 6a 10 6 4 60% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 LG 2000 v3.0 3 2.5 0.5 83% 40/40 K6-2 533/16 EngMatch Nimzo 7.32 10 5.5 4.5 55% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 Shredder 4.0 1 1 0 100% 40/40 P3 650/64 + K6-3 450/64 Yace 0.99 2 1.5 0.5 75% 40/40 P3 800/32 EngMatch CM8 Utzinger 81 52 29 64% Best regards Kurt
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