Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 04:58:48 05/02/02
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On May 01, 2002 at 12:39:52, John Merlino wrote: >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 Then why are they calling the new Gameboy Advance version Chessmaster 8000? http://www.gamer.uk.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=GBOYADV&item=gboyadv111&type=store I did see a UBI soft press release somewhere but can't find it at the moment.
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