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Subject: Re: CM6555 V CM6000 2h\40

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 08:09:06 12/15/98

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On December 15, 1998 at 10:42:24, Dan Kiski wrote:

>>>Time controls 40 moves in 120 minutes, balance 30 minutes.
>>>
>>>             W      L      D     GAMES     SCORE
>>>CM 6555      72     52     76     200       110
>>>CM 6000      52     72     76     200        90
>>>
>>>I am now currently testing:
>>>CM 6555 cm6000.obk V CM 6555 mentor.obk.
>>>Same tourney length and time controls stated above.
>>
>>I hope for that you play CM6555/mentor-vs-CM6000 and not
>>CM6555/mentor-vs-CM6555/original.
>>
>>How many games did you play in tournament mode against which opponent and with
>>which opening book?
>>I admit I am really astonished that CM6555 wins against Fritz5 and Rebel10. I
>>mean opening is not the whole story in chess but the CM opening book was never
>>known as good although this CM6k-book indeed has improved...
>
>I played games in series of 100, using cm faber\pilz with cm6k.obk against both
>Fritz 5.16 and Rebel 10 however this was prior to joining this group and was
>done mainly out of curiousity, since when I purchased Fritz 5 I had believed
>that it could beat anything. I as stated previously played games at varying time
>controls from 5 secs move, 15 secs moves, 30 secs move to 2-1/2 hours game.
>Times are per side !!. I found that the cm didn't lose a single match (match
>meaning at the set time control total games W,D,L) it was then that I switched
>to the Nunn positions and tried the same thing with the same basic result.

:)
For some people this was certainly surprising. :-)
(BTW for me too because I didn't have good results within CM6k with my settings.
But this was probably the effect I wrote here to get a wrong impression by too
few games)

>As I have also stated before although I believe cm faber\pilz to be the
>strongest current program (excluding Fritz 5.32, MCP8, Hiarcs 7) and remember

You mean SO FAR. I wouldn't exclude Fritz5.32. ;-)

>before everyone jumps on me it is only my opinion, Fritz 5 is still my >favourite program.

No problem, has a smarter GUI/surface and database and analysis handling.



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