Author: Matthew Herman
Date: 07:18:23 12/05/98
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On December 04, 1998 at 19:51:43, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >On December 04, 1998 at 17:41:08, Matthew Herman wrote: > >>Yes when I said that it was 2300 that was when I was running it on a P120. >>Now I am on a PII450 and it is 2500-2600 range sorry for the misunderstanding. >>In some matches I have done it has shown fritz to be stronger than CM6k though >>maybe by 50-100 elo points. It has beaten Junior 5 yes.. but was it a better >>opening book? Was it a trap? I will look over the games.. The CM6k engines DO >>get better as they bring out new ones.. however, I still trust the Fritz5 >>analysis more than the Cm6k.. yes it is 2500 range.. I am uscf 2050 and I played >>a match with it at g/20 (fast time controls favor computers?) and tied 2-2. >>Albeit I am a 2300 blitz player so there may be something there but it is strong >>however at the same time controls I played fritz and lost 1-3. So its >>interesting.. I am NOT saying this without having first used these programs (I >>have Cm5k, cm5500 and cm6k). Sorry for the misunderstanding.. >> >>Yes it is a strong program but I prefer Fritz5 (N.B. I don't work for ChessBase >>or Rebel :) ) > > >Have you played CM6K with its best settings, that is logged in under I am the >next bobby fischer. Otherwise I have found that using some of the other login >names, you are player a chessmaster that can be 150 points lower than stated. >Have you increased the hash. >Have you tired the alternative settings, I posted ones here which when I play >against the out of box settings I find my settings to be about 35-40% stronger >in the six games I have played so far. > >And as for Analysis, I think CM6K apart from infinite analysis, is better than >the rest, it picks up Mates in quicker time than any other program, and on >positions posted on here sometimes, I find that it find them much more faster >than the other programs. Yes I did log on as "The next Bobby Fischer" :). It is strong but it has very limited positional judgement in closed center openings (as most programs do).
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