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Subject: Re: To Peter Berger on CM8K Epic win Vs. Yace

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 10:08:28 06/05/02

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On June 05, 2002 at 12:46:57, Sandi Ordinario wrote:

Hi Sandi,

>Hi Peter!
>
>I had been puzzled recently about my CM8000 beating Fritz6 and I would run Fritz
>on my 1.5GHz P4 desktop computer while the CM8K on a 0.9GHz P3 laptop. Except
>for one time that Fritz drew with the CM, it has been beaten convincingly. If I
>swapped hardware the CM beats Fritz6 hands down like 20 moves and under with a
>brilliant sacrifice ending in Fritz being mated. I have come to the conclusion
>that my Fritz maybe flawed. Some of the CCC writers have even suggested I tried
>changing Fritz parameters like hash tables and the like but for both 10sec/move
>and 20sec/move the King has the upperhand.

This sounds like a very unlikely result indeed. I would expect Fritz6 to do much
better against Chessmaster8000 than it does on your computers . Or maybe you
have only played a very little number of games so far?


> I cannot believe it until I read your
>Epic battles between CM and Yace. Perhaps if I had Bill McGaugh's parameter
>settings for CM it would even be stronger, I don't know. Thanks for publishing
>all 40 of the games between CM and Yace. I will go over them and pick out the
>most brillian for my chess souvenirs.
>

You're welcome.
Peter
>Sandi



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