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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