Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:39:52 05/01/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 01:35:10, Joshua Lee wrote: >On April 30, 2002 at 15:31:02, John Merlino wrote: > >>On April 30, 2002 at 15:24:34, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >> >>>On April 30, 2002 at 15:10:08, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>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 >>> >>>IMHO, CM for gameboy would be absolutely great, unfortunately you should go >>>through a painful setup before playing (that cannot easily saved). That kills >>>the whole purpose for kids... like me :-) >>> >>>painful for kids that they do not know exactly what to choose. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Miguel >> >>Well, thankfully, a GameBoy Advance version is due to be released in about 2-3 >>months. >> >>jm > >What i do know is that the new chessmaster for Gameboy Advance is supposed to be >Chessmaster 8000. What i don't get however is that with all of it's knowledge >wouldn't the same PC program be painfully slow on the 16Mhz Advance? >The Chessmaster for Gameboy color (i use on the old Gameboy) at 4.194304Mhz >searches 80-135 positions per second! With an average of 90 positions a second >and the Depth i've seen was 6 ply. That would put it at 21870nodes per second >on a 1Ghz processor except that's compared to a 6502 and with the obvious memory >limit how could you have enough to run even just the regular CM8000 engine. You don't know that it is the same engine in CM8000, because it isn't. I don't know for sure what engine is in there (I suspect that it is the same engine that is in the GB color version, although it might be a much earlier version of The King). But I DO know that it is not the same engine as in CM8000. jm
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