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Subject: Re: How to draw with Chessmaster

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:58:43 07/23/03

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On July 23, 2003 at 10:26:52, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>The CM 9000 default personality is rated 2789 on my Celeron 1.7 GHz
>machine. My Hungarian rating is 2127. Are we in the same class? No.
>It simply cannot handle this opening properly, unless it counts
>as success a draw with black (as I do against a comp with any colour).
>
>
>[Event "Chessmaster 9000 Rated Game"]
>[Site ""]
>[Date "2003.7.23"]
>[Round ""]
>[White "Szalai"]
>[Black "Chessmaster"]
>[TimeControl "3600+5"]
>[Result "1/2-1/2"]
>
>1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.h3 e6 4.e3 Bd6 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 O-O 7.O-O Nc6 8.Nbd2
>Qc7 9.Re1 Bd7 10.a3 c4 11.Bc2 Ne7 12.e4 dxe4 13.Nxe4 Nxe4 14.Bxe4 f6
>15.Bd2 Nd5 16.Qb1 f5 17.Bc2 Rac8 18.Ne5 Bxe5 19.Rxe5 Qd6 20.Qd1 Qb6
>21.Rb1 Qd6 22.Ra1 Qb6 23.Rb1 Qd6 24.Ra1 1/2-1/2

Taking a look at the game, after 19.Rxe5, the Chessmaster personality feels that
White is slightly ahead (a 1-minute analysis on a P4-2.4 gives an eval of 0.31
for White). So when you offered a draw by repetition with the White pieces,
Chessmaster said "thank you very much!" :-)

jm



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