Author: James T. Walker
Date: 05:20:35 09/21/99
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On September 20, 1999 at 22:17:05, Bradley S., Short wrote: >I don't know much about the later versions of Genius but Genius 2 is beating the >crap out of Chessmaster 6000. So far 2.5 to .5 at game in 90 minutes on >Celeron 366's. Also Chessmaster cannot checkmate a lone King with Bishop and >Knight with 5 seconds per move to think. Always ends in a draw after 50 moves. >Genius 2 has never taken over 25 moves to do it from any starting position. (No >hash tables) Hello Bradley, With only 3 games played it's impossible to tell anything except which one is leading after 3 games. Make sure you have the CM6K hash tables set properly. You are right about CM6K cannot force a mate with Knight & Bishop from some positions. It can do it from some positions if you get caught in one of the right positions. It's just a matter of chance. It has some basic knowledge but there are certain positions which need to be recognized to finish the mate and CM6K does not have this position recognition. Jim Walker P.S. There are several programs around which cannot do this without endgame tablebases.
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