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Subject: Re: Why is my ChessMaster 5000 so strong?

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 17:36:41 04/30/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 21:02:54, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On April 29, 2001 at 17:58:00, stuart taylor wrote:
>
>>On April 29, 2001 at 14:24:55, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>>
>>>On April 29, 2001 at 11:04:44, Tiago Ribeiro wrote:
>>>
>>>>I think CM is maybe the best chess engine too! But it is not politically correct
>>>>to say this here! :)))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On April 29, 2001 at 07:44:50, Douglas Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello, I was wondering why my CM5000 was so strong, I make it play 8 hours a day
>>>>>and analyze all games. I have played people that have Hiarcs, CM8000, CM7000 and
>>>>>Fritz 6, but my CM seems to be too strong for them. Could it be my computer???
>>>>>I run it on a Pentium 3, Windows 98, 128 MB, 15 GB and 667Mhz.
>>>>>I have played Fritz6 only online, but the guy had a much better computer than
>>>>>me, he had 955Mhz etc.
>>>>>Well..I am sure that you are thinking...What the hell is he talking about?!!!
>>>>>Ok, here is the question.
>>>>>I needed you to know all that info because I wanted to know if my CM would be
>>>>>capable of beating Deep Fritz, Shredder 5.0 or any of those strong programs.
>>>>>I was wondering if maybe we could get togehter at a site, I mean go to a site
>>>>>and try them out.
>>>>>You can contact me at  hamilton@fide.org
>>>>>This is for anyone that reads this message.
>>>>>Thankyou..Douglas.
>>>
>>>Chessmaster in my opinion is one of the strongest engines without: Big book,
>>>book learning, engame tables and other minor twists.
>>>It also benefits greatly from faster processor speed.
>>>I have played ten games manually 40/120 with 5500 against Fritz 6, Junior 6 and
>>>Deep Fritz (10 games each) because i was under the impression that it might be
>>>stronger, but even with the advantage of the faster cpu, at that time T-bird
>>>1.2ghz and chessbase family on T-bird 900mhz, chessmaster lost all the matches
>>>allthough narrowly, it is some time ago and i nolonger have the games, but i do
>>>recall the scores to be something like 6.5-3.5 and 7.5-2.5 and i don't remember
>>>the last score, but it lost that too.
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Jonas
>>
>>Sorry, which CM? I mean is 5500 and 6000 atleast stronger than 5000 (if 8000
>>isn't)?
>>S.Taylor
>
>I've played _all*_ the CM series and yes CM 6000/7000 is stronger, also CMK8 is
>stronger, than CM5000.
>*De Konig the King Programm. CM5500 has the same engine I believe as CM5000.
>CM6000/7000 also has basically the same engine, but stronger than CM5K and
>CM55K.
>CM8000 has the latest King engine, it is probably the strongest, bugs
>notwithstanding:)
>
>But certainly CMKX* is not stronger than the top programms. *All versions.
>
>Terry

Terry, Are you saying that CM8000 is the strongest CM, if there would be no
bugs?
S.Taylor



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