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Subject: Re: Moronic program wins against CM8000!

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 06:35:01 12/18/01

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

>On December 17, 2001 at 07:47:05, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>Chezzz 1.0 alpha, which is a complete rewrite of Chezzz, just beat CM8000 on
>>appx. equal hardware on ICC! I know nothing can be proved of this (in fact, I
>>_know_ that CM8000 is a billion times stronger than Chezzz), but it was still
>>hilarious to see, because this version of Chezzz is not at all finished. It
>>knows _nothing_ about king safety! And the rest of the evaluation is a joke too.
>>And the branching factor is still high, and... When CM8000 matched me, I wrote
>>the operator (if any), "Pick on someone your own size..." :)
>>

>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:
>
>-- 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.

Maybe using auto232 through Winboard to connect to ICC ?



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