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Subject: Re: A little disapointed with M-chess 7

Author: Serge Desmarais

Date: 09:08:24 09/19/98

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On September 19, 1998 at 06:42:37, odell hall wrote:

>  I recently purchased M-chess 7.0, I expected a monster, but got only a mouse!!
>The program was playing so weak that I spent most of my time checking the
>setting to make sure it wasn't on easy mode. Ofcourse I am running a 486/100mhz
>computer, but this fact makes little difference when i play other programs such
>as rebel and genius. Out of hundreds of games against these programs I have yet
>to score a win. However my first game against M-chess I crushed it in 23 moves!!
>I noticed that the program searches only 200,000 positions in a full minute.
>(atleast on my machine). Does anyone know how m-chess compares with other top
>programs in terms of speed. Also is it known more for it's chess knowledge or
>for how fast it is?



   That seems strange, because on a 486DX2/66, MChess Pro 5 is only 26 points
behind Genius 3 on the SSDF list, so about the same (at 2330). So, one would
expect MCP 6 or 7 to be better. But maybe the program has been optimized for
running on the Pentium machines? Note that on the Genius site, it says the
Richard Lang is also doing it for Genius 6, now...



Serge Desmarais



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