Author: Jerry Jones
Date: 03:11:53 03/29/02
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On March 28, 2002 at 14:20:20, John Merlino wrote: >On March 28, 2002 at 14:00:39, Sergei Smith wrote: > >>On March 28, 2002 at 10:30:06, SedatCambaz wrote: >> >>>Hi there, >>>I created a position on two computers(P 3-550 MHz and P 4-1400MHz)in Fritz 7 >>>-Gui(Queen against Rook),ý used no tablebases,timecontrol 40m in 40min.All >>>engines(Fritz 7,Chess Tiger 14.0,Shredder 6.02,Junior 7,Crafty 18.14,Sos for >>>Arena,Yace 0.99.56) found very quickly the mate(about in 15moves-20moves). >>>Only The King 3.12d could not find the mate. >>>His oponent was Fritz 7 with white pices and The King 3.12d was with black .If >>>anybody wants to try by itself-The position is here: >>> black to move ! >>> >>>white: Kc2 Rd3 >>> >>>black: Qd4 Ke5 >>> >>> >>>Best, >> >> >>... not just in the endgame, it's the same throughout every game with TheKing. >>CM / The King is a nifty piece of software whose only strength is based on smoke >>and mirrors like fiddling with the system settings, manipulating and grabbing up >>system resources and hiding such API functions and covering their tracks what >>makes them difficult to trace and that's why TheKing apparently seems to be >>invincible but that is nothing to do with chess playing strength. >>This is probably done in order to make the CM buyers not feel disappointed. >>Please note that using the Auto 282 device to connect 2 PC's is just as unfair >>as playing on 1 PC because that device is manipulated as well. The only fair >>competition against The King is playing manually on 2 different PS's and >>entering the moves by hand, and even then you can still run other apps on the PC >>of The King's opponent what is not possible on The King's PC. Thus it's >>impossible to rename / delete TheKing.exe after closing CM8000. >>TheKing.exe never stops running unless you kill it with Pview. >>Some tracing / spying tools you will find here : http://protools.cjb.net/ > >Thanks for the humor. That's the funniest thing I've read here in a while! > >Of course, it may be that you are running CM8000 on an unsupported version of >Windows (e.g. Windows 2000/NT/XP), in which case any results you get are >completely meaningless. > >jm I means that only those operating systems are supported on which The King seems to be the stronger engine. Come off that commercial hype ! I found The King with the wb2uci adapter to be the 6th or 8 th strongest WinBoard engine, not taking the ChessBase engines into account. So on DOS it will have a lousy rating against Rebel since the King does not work on DOS : ) Pull the other leg !
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