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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 10th Edition and SSDF

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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