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Subject: Re: Hoyle Majestic Chess : Head-To-Head with ChessMaster???

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:31:20 07/10/03

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On July 10, 2003 at 16:53:23, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 10, 2003 at 16:43:35, George Tsavdaris wrote:
>
>>On July 10, 2003 at 16:03:12, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>On July 10, 2003 at 15:53:10, Steve Maughan wrote:
>>>
>>>>John,
>>>>
>>>>>>So who are the member of the original ChessMaster team?  Maybe John Merlino
>>>>>>knows?
>>>>>
>>>>>Sure I would know, since I'm one of them.... :-)
>>>>
>>>>Interesting!!!  So you are involved with the Majestic Chess project?  So what is
>>>>the engine in this product?
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Steve
>>>
>>>Yes, I am one of several ex-Chessmaster developers involved in this product.
>>>
>>>The engine is by David Kittinger, the programmer of the engine in the original
>>>Chessmaster.
>>>
>>I thought that the engine in the original Chessmaster was The King. I suppose
>>you know the strength of this engine. Do you believe (honestly) is at the same
>>level with the todays top engines (F8/S7.04/TK323/J8/CT8/R12...) or lower?
>
>No, Kittinger's engine was in Chessmaster 2000 and 2100 (and I think it was even
>in CM3000).
>
>Honestly, I haven't done much testing with Kittinger's engine, and the only
>testing I have done is against Chessmaster personalities of various types (since
>Majestic Chess is shipping with 32 different personalities).
>
>However, I think I can safely say that the rating of Kittinger's new engine is
>about 100-150 points lower than that of The King, when both engines are at their
>top levels, and ONLY at blitz time controls. I have done no testing at a time
>control faster than Fischer 5/3.

Will we be able to finagle this engine into Winboard like "TheKing" engine?



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