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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