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Subject: What Did He Say?

Author: Thom Perry

Date: 16:29:53 09/16/99

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On September 16, 1999 at 18:55:01, Bradley S., Short wrote:

>On September 16, 1999 at 17:53:52, odell hall wrote:
>
>>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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