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Subject: Re: CM6555 V CM6000 2h\40

Author: Dan Kiski

Date: 08:18:12 12/15/98

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On December 15, 1998 at 11:09:06, Harald Faber wrote:

>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. ;-)
See the line above "(excluding Fritz 5.32, MCP8, Hiarcs 7)"
>
>>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.
At least in our opinion it does :-)






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