Author: Luis Smith
Date: 21:08:43 01/15/03
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On January 15, 2003 at 22:01:59, Mike Byrne wrote:
>On January 15, 2003 at 17:42:59, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>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
>
>John,
>
>Coming from you - our "resident in exile CM Guru" , that is really saying
>something. You definetely peaked my interest. If anybody wants to send me a
>PS2 with Chessmaster - I will be happy to test :).
>
>Michael Byrne
I could send it to you, but I haven't played it in so long, and I'm not really
sure about the condition its in...I'll look into and send you an e-mail
Reguards
Luis
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