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Subject: Re: CM4000 wins a match against a uscf 2280!

Author: odell hall

Date: 19:29:04 11/29/98

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On November 29, 1998 at 21:46:41, James T. Walker wrote:

>On November 29, 1998 at 20:54:10, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On November 29, 1998 at 20:21:50, odell hall wrote:
>>
>>>Hi CCC
>>>
>>>
>>> I recently completed a six game match between Chessmaster 4000 running on a
>>>pent 233 16meb and a USCF 2280 rated master. The games were played at a time
>>>control of Game in 60. Chessmaster won the match Convincingly with a score of 4
>>>1/2 to 1 1/2. What type of rating would this give chessmaster based on this
>>>match alone?
>>
>>
>>USCF rating of 2434
>
>Hello,
>Actually the USCF uses a simple formula for unrated players to get to a
>TPR(Tournament Performance Rating).  It is OpR+(W-L)*400 / N.  Example:
>4.5-1.5=3*400=1200 divided by 6=200 + Opponents average rating(2280)=2480
>
>This is a little low I think for CM4000 on that hardware. Perhaps you did not
>give it any extra ram for hash tables.
>Jim Walker

Actually I was not aware that you could adjust the Hash tables for Chessmaster
4000. I only have 16 megs of ram on my system. Anyway I thought it was a pretty
good result against a human 2280!! Remember this is not Chessmaster 5000 or 6000
but one step up from 3000!!



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