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

Author: Kai Lübke

Date: 00:42:13 08/06/98

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On August 05, 1998 at 12:14:25, Shaun Graham wrote:

>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

Not quite. :-(
Cm has played about 90 games _overall_  on my site, about 35 of which being
40/120.

>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.

Agreed. :)
Maybe the Mindscape guys will be positive towards the idea of challenging a GM
on a Kryotech machine (if they improved the opening book first, but maybe CM6000
will do)...

---
Shep



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