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Subject: Re: chessmaster on Xbox and gamecube,what will the rating be on these?

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 15:37:50 02/22/03

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On February 22, 2003 at 17:57:29, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On February 22, 2003 at 17:43:14, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On February 22, 2003 at 17:34:50, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On February 22, 2003 at 17:01:06, david wight wrote:
>>>
>>>>both coming out in june.
>>>
>>>An Xbox has a CPU speed 700 Mhz which is an increase of 40 points to the below
>>>rating of CM8000 on a K6-2 450 MHz. Its rating should be around 2542.
>>>
>>>
>>>15 Hiarcs 7.01 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2521
>>>17 Rebel Century 3.0 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2518
>>>18 Chessmaster 8000 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 2502
>>
>>Since the clock rate of these machines is known (and higher than the average
>>user's computer when CM8000 was released), the selectivity setting could be
>>raised a bit, making The King stronger than the default CM8000 setting SSDF has
>>tested.
>>
>>OTOH, experience has proven that such conversions are usually poorly done in
>>terms of maintaining the engines strength (they have on PCs). But such versions
>>aren't for the computer chess strength freak anyway. It will suit it's purpose
>>with 100 or 200 Elo less, too.
>>
>>Regards,
>>M.Scheidl
>
>The X-box is a 733 MHz Pentium 3 (5.5x133) with 64 MB of memory shared for both
>graphics and system memory. Furthermore it runs Windows 2000. It sure smells
>like PC to me.


Of course Bill Gate (Microsoft Company) made this Box to compete against PS2. It
is a small computer in a square box called XBox.

Pichard



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