Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:42:59 01/15/03
Go up one level in this thread
On January 15, 2003 at 17:11:46, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>An intersting 4 game match at 40/120 recently took place between the Novag
>Sapphire (action rated at 2383 by USCF)and the chessmaster 2 program for
>the playstation game console.The Sapphire lost all 4 games.A reader had recently
>expressed doubts whether this game console program was more than 1600.
>THis result should destroy such conjectures.In fact programs for Game Consoles
>are stronger than all Dedicated chess computers and very strong.Here is the
>interesting first game with the diagram of the final position.
> White:Novag Sapphire Black:Chessmaster2 (playstation)
>1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Qb3 Bg7 7.cxd5 N(b)-d7
>8.Bf4 0-0 9.Nf3 Nb6 10.Bc4 Bf5 11.Nh4 Bg4 12.h3 Rc8 13.Bb5 N(f)xd5 14.Nxd5 Nxd5
>15.Bg5 Be6 16.Nf3 Nc3 17.Qb4 a5 18.Qxc3 Rxc3 19.bxc3 h6 20.Bd2 Bd5 21.Be2 Qd7
>22.0-0 e5 23.R(f)-b1 exd4 24.Nxd4 Qe7 25.Bf1 Qa3 26.h4 Rd8 27.h5 gxh5 28.Be2 h4
>29.Bg4 Bxg2 30.Kxg2 Bxd4 31.Rxb7 Bxf2 32.Rd1 Qxa2 33.Bh5 h3+ 34.Kxh3 Rd3+
>{White Resigned} 0-1
>[D]6k1/1R3p2/7p/p6B/8/2Pr3K/q2B1b2/3R3 w
Whoever said that about the Chessmaster program was very wrong. I personally
conservatively estimated the Chessmaster 2 program (running on an ORIGINAL
Playstation -- NOT a PS2) to be around 2200 at its strongest setting. Perhaps,
according to these results, it is much higher....
jm
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.