Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:34:48 01/22/05
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On January 22, 2005 at 18:42:01, Graham Banks wrote: >On January 22, 2005 at 18:27:22, DB wrote: > >>How much stronger, if any, will CM 10K play under the Fritz, or other GUIs with >>a better opening book, then under its Own GUI? > >CM9000 and CM10th Edtion both have exactly the same opening book and it's of a >better quality than previous versions. >I'm using CM10th Cobra with its own opening book under Fritz and it's doing just >fine: > >16.5 - Fritz 8 Bilbao >15.5 - Deep Junior 9 >13.5 - CM10th Cobra >13.0 - Shredder 8 >12.5 - Gandalf 6.0 >12.0 - CM9000 Minotaur 2 >12.0 - Ruffian 2.1.0 >9.0 - Hiarcs 9 Indeed, I spent a fair amount of time compiling the default CM9000 book (as well as all of the GM books), and it is definitely better than the one in the previous versions. However, it is still not in the same league as books that are "authored" and fine-tuned for the particular engine in question. The book that Johan uses for The King in tournaments is far different from the one available in Chessmaster. jm
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