Author: Dana Turnmire
Date: 12:31:10 08/02/01
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On August 02, 2001 at 13:36:32, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>On August 02, 2001 at 13:06:52, Peter Harband wrote:
>
>> At this time I Have the chessmaster versions, 6000 7000,and
>>8000 running on my pentium 3 at 900 mhz After playing many games with the three
>>,the conclution is that the 6000 is the best playing program.In fact I can find
>>very little difference between the 6000 and fritz6 when playing at the strongest
>>level.The 7000 and 8000 will sometimes make strange moves, like not take hanging
>>pieces,and play seems weaker in general.The 8000 is the weakest of the three.I
>>would recomend the windows 95/98 version with the expanded data base[444,000
>>games]. There is a patch avilable that fixes some minor bugs and allows you to
>>run the program for a while with out the cd in the drive. This can be found at a
>>few websites ie; search engine,{Chessmaster 6000 patches} Have fun!
>
>If you have played the matches on one computer (CM6,7,8 against eachother on one
>cpu) you can not count on the results since some of the versions will get the
>most processor power, you need two cpu's with the same processor speed to get
>reliable results.
>
>Regards
>Jonas
If each program is completely shut down after each move and continued from
the saved position would the results be reliable? I played one game like that
recently. Would that get around one program robbing the other of cpu power?
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