Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:55:17 05/28/01
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On May 28, 2001 at 14:39:51, Chessfun wrote: >On May 28, 2001 at 09:51:40, Harald Faber wrote: > >>Hi all, >>I have started a tourney to find out the strongest Tiger. Chess Tiger 14, >>GambitTiger 2, GambitTiger 2 aggressive and GambitTiger 2 aggressive plus >>SelSafety=8 will play against WChess 2000, Zarkov 5, Shredder 4, Shredder 5, >>MChessPro 8, Hiarcs 7.32, Nimzo 8, Junior 6a (maybe. Junior 7), Fritz 6 (Version >>May 2001), Rebel Century 3 and Chessmaster 8000. The Chessmaster matches will >>only be played if I get Chessmaster to play autoplayer series. If I don't there >>won't be an alternative opponent. Same with Rebel Century 3, if I see trouble >>referring to the autoplayer, the match will be canceled. But let's hope for the >>best. BTW any advice concerning Chessmaster 8000 and autoplayer-series is >>welcome. >>The matches have the following setup: 40 moves in 120 minutes plus 60 minutes >>for the rest of the game. The games will be played on two computers. The Tigers >>get an Athlon-600 with 192MB RAM which means 96MB hash. The opponents get an >>equal computer but with 500MHz (same mainboard, same RAM). Chessmaster will run >>with 64MB hash which is said to be sufficient, Rebel Century will get 100MB >>hash, MChessPro cannot handle more than 61MB hash, all the other programs will >>have 120-128MB hash. Each program plays with the own book and default settings. >>The matches go over 10 rounds=games. So each Tiger will play a maximum of 100 >>games and all in all 400 TOURNAMENT games will be played (!). (What am I doing, >>am I crazy? That takes three months. :-)) >>Six matches have been finished so far, results and games (zipped PGN) are >>available on www.geocities.com/Harald1312/HaraldFaber.html (text in German >>only). Site will be updated after each completed match and when completely >>finished I will provide all games in one database. >> >>Enjoy! (I do!) :-) >> >>Harald Faber >> >>PS for Jeroen Noomen: You should contact me, there's at least one line for black >>which Tiger frequently loses although coming out of book with a piece up but a >>dubious position. > > >Hi Harold, > Great tournament good luck with it. Thanks, Sarah! >Regarding the CM8K. >You will find when you run it in tournament mode against >the other program that if you are absent it will play say >games 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Then simply make a new tournament this >time switch the order you selected the two players then you'll >get games 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10. > >The only other way around this is to play a game in the game >room then manually switch sides. I once tried it not very successful, will try it again by hard. > >To set up >Download the "CB_auto232c or b.zip" file Frank has it at; >http://amateurschach.in-trier.de/schach/download/download_top.htm >Then unzip it to the Chessmaster 8000 directory. >Then install by going to the game room >Click on Game, Import Xboard Engine. >Name as say Winboard232b >In xboard filename name the location here is mine; >D:\Chessmaster 8000\winboard232b.exe >Then on Command line add >-noextend > >Best of luck !! > >Sarah. > > > >Then it's a simple matter of installing it like a winboard engine. This just >requires you to go to the "Game" menu then "Import xboard Engine" and fill in >the blanks.
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