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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 5500 or 4000

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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