Author: Chessfun
Date: 11:09:12 11/09/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 13:18:24, Dann Corbit wrote: >On November 09, 2005 at 09:48:03, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: > >>On November 08, 2005 at 12:16:45, Tony Hedlund wrote: >> >>>On November 08, 2005 at 11:28:24, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >>> >>>>Will SSDF test this program anytime soon? >>> >>>No. > > >>Why is this? Cm 9000 was tested. > >Probably, they learned from their mistake. I am pretty astonished that they >bothered to do any of the CM engines because of the staggering work involved. > >ChessMaster does not have an autoplayer. > >Look at the average game length when played at 40/2 (it's several hours). > >Look at the time invested for 300 games. > >Will you volunteer to sit for 2000 hours and manually input chess moves? I >guess that the SSDF testers are all professionals whose time is worth at least >$50/hour. That's a $100,000 project. Just do ten games yourself with CM verses >Fritz or Junior and then imagine scaling that up to 300 or even 1000 games, as >some of the engines get eventually. > >We have other places to measure the engine strength of CM (Graham Banks tests, >CEGT tests). > >Of course, those tests use CM as a Winboard engine and probably do not use the >CM books so they do not measure the strength of the system. But the system is >simply badly designed for automated testing. I don't think that is in this case totally correct. It was for CM6000 but if I remember correctly CM9000 was auto played though it could have been 8000. This could be done but was still a little labor intensive. There was also a way to convert CM 9000 and 10000 books to ctg and the possibility remains to play CM 10000 in a Chessbase GUI. Sarah.
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