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Subject: Re: CM 5500 vs. Fritz 5 & Rebel 9

Author: Shaun Graham

Date: 09:14:25 08/05/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 07:41:47, Freddie wrote:

>Shaun,
>
>I was surprised by a previous posting where you said that Chessmaster 5500 would
>beat Fritz 5 or Rebel 9 on a Pentium II 400 computer.  Aren't the latter two
>programs supposed to be superior in both knowledge and search speed?  I would
>appreciate it if you or someone else could explain how and why this would be
>possible.


You can go to this page
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Ring/8448/compchess2.html#t08 were
chessmaster has played almost a 100 40/2 games with excellent results surpassing
all the top programs it recently beat rebel 9 7 - 2 in a 40/2 match on two
P233s.  Chessmaster for some reason benefits considerably more from faster
processors than other programs, i believe this to be the main reason for it's
much increased strength over the ssdf rating.  Most people like to use CM5555
settings to enhance chessmasters performance, but the new settings in my
oppinion only increase the strength slightly.  I've played many games with
Chessmaster vs Rebel, Genius and fritz 5 myself, when on comparable fast
hardware (p233s) chessmaster most often has a slight edge in winning
percentages.  You can also find some tournaments on the gambitsoft page
demonstrating the increased strength chessmaster has running on faster hardware.
The winning resulys are even more spectacular because chessmaster has a
non-optimized book.   Chessmasters combinative ability surpasses all other
programs i believe and it finds mate faster than any other program as well.





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