Author: odell hall
Date: 14:53:52 09/16/99
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On September 16, 1999 at 13:16:08, Bradley S., Short wrote: >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 If you ask me Chessmaster 3000 is rather weak, I beat it like a step-child when I had my cyrix 233
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