Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 13:20:34 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 08:05:33, fca wrote: >On August 19, 1998 at 07:15:35, Mark Loftus wrote: > >>On August 18, 1998 at 19:14:01, fca wrote: >> >>>On August 18, 1998 at 18:17:27, Antonio wrote: >>> >>>>anyone know the ratings for the personalities in any of these programs. >>> >>>Lower than the default, in my experience, on both 4000 and 5000=5500. >>> >>Hi fca, >> I'm not sure what you mean by "lower than the default", could you explain. > >The default "ChessMaster" personality. Before you adjust any knobs, save it as >anything else. Out of the box. > >>Also could you post results of some of your matches. Thanks. > >I cannot, as there was no reason to save them. Just use the option in >ChessMaster (4000 or 5000, I cannot imagine 5500 which I do not have is any >different) to play a computer vs computer tournament. Say between the >ChessMaster personality and the amended one (W-Pilz say), or involve more >players. Give it a reasonable time per move (as far as CM permits ;-6 ) and >leave it running. Then look at the result. > >When I "ran" these, ChessMaster almost always came out on top. When it didn't, >and X scored higher, a one-to-one tournament vs X would settle it back in favour >of the default personality. > >Hence my skepticism. > >>Most of the 4000 personalities,beat me at 5seconds/move, and I am a 1450uscf >>player, especially "chessmaster" & famous players. The others I have more of a >>shot. > >You do not mention your hardware. On a modern-ish Pentium, Chessmaster will >annihilate a 1450 uscf player in all its personality guises... You must make it >weaker in order to win, and I've no knowledge of how to do this (there may well >be a feature there to do this - I have not looked - or else just rack some of >the controls to silly values, like Rook = 1 ;-0) ). > >As I wrote below: > >>>My evidence is drawn from matches "within" CM > >i.e. No matches / tourneys against humans or other programs were involved. > >Kind regards > >fca my hardware is a 586/133mhz, 8 mb ram hope to upgrade soon but then I will have no chance except for novice, newcomer, & easy Mark
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