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Subject: Chessmaster 3000 not bad on fast hardware.

Author: Bradley S., Short

Date: 10:16:08 09/16/99


The last time I even used Chessmaster 3000 was on a 486/50.   Lately
I have been playing around with it on a Celeron 366 and it is much
improved.
Beat Novag Sapphire 5 to 0 at game in 60 minutes.
Draw against CM5500 at 3 min per move.
Draw against CM6000 at 3 min per move.

It takes time to play these 3 min per move games but so far CM3000 hasnt
been beaten.   It can see over 200,000 postitions per second.  more
four times 5500 or 6000.
Both 5500 and 6000 are much more sophisticated programs with better
algorithms so they would no doubt defeat 3000 in serious matches but
still I am quite pleased with the old boy.
I used 3000 to learn to play the game and back then it really used to
make short work of me.  As I got stronger I began to see its weaknesses..
Later I got 4000 and went back to getting spanked.
But now that the hardware is 10 times faster 3000 made a significant leap
in strength.  Enough to interest me again.

Brad



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