Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:10:08 04/30/02
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On April 30, 2002 at 11:23:53, Joshua Lee wrote: >Since People out there seem to like older programs for aesthetic reasons, I've >decided to mention Battle Chess for Nintendo and ChessMaster for Game >Gear/GameBoy. I don't know how these compare to their PC counterparts other than >the obvious Speed Gap but maybe someone can shed some light on what versions are >they. Is ChessMaster for Gameboy the same as chessmaster 2000 or some other >chessmaster? What about the gamegear chessmaster which came out much much >earlier? What of Battle Chess? It seems to take around 2-3 minutes on level 4 >and while it is no match for Fritz, it does appear to be making 3ply searches. I >figure this because the errors in games i played against it, and that fritz 7 >set to fixed depth starts to disagree alot from 3ply and up. I'm not sure which engine is in the Chessmaster GB version (the manual does not say and I don't have a GB to test it on), but I would guess that, even on the strongest (i.e. the longest) setting, it doesn't play much above 1600, if at all. jm
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