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Subject: Re: Moronic program wins against CM8000!

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 14:39:10 12/17/01

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On December 17, 2001 at 14:53:38, John Merlino wrote:

>I have looked at this game and a few items are rather odd.
>
>Firstly, Chezzz played a great game, no doubt about that, especially if it is as
>weak as you claim. ;-)
>

It is :) I suspect the operator of CM is to blame really.

>However, I believe that this game was actually human-operated, which Chessmaster
>only making MOST of the moves, rather than TheKing.exe running under Winboard.
>Here are my findings:
>

Sounds plausible.

>-- The first eleven moves are straight out of CM8000's book, which would be
>impossible if TheKing were "in charge", because there is no way for TheKing to
>access the CM8000 opening book under Winboard.
>

I see. So it had to be hand-operated.

>-- I don't think any of the questionable moves in the game were due to mouse
>slips, since the suggested move by CM8000 is usually unrelated to the move
>played.
>

OK.

/David



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