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Subject: Re: Match will go on. CM 7000 - CT 12.0 0-1 Total: 4.5-2.5

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 08:45:07 10/19/99

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> 2) Then I started CM 7000, selected my CM 7000 personality (PB OFF),
> made some moves to be sure it is no more in book, turned on "Set
> Up Game" window to stop CM from taking opponent's CPU - that is
> exactly the situation as in my test games!

While engine didn't change, the UI did and the tricks which used to prevent its
engine from hogging the CPU in CM6000 may have been "fixed" in CM7000 (for
whatever reason, e.g. they may have redone thread managment code and boosted
thread priority for their engine thread, or there may have been bugs in the old
dialog code etc). In any case, a test of CT on couple positions searched to a
fixed depth would be useful, with and without CM running. Note that a generic
benchmark of something else (to test general windows slowdown with CM in the
background) may not necessarily capture its effect on CT.

CM does play an awkward kind of chess (e.g. I have seen it without any real
necessity play a bishop on d6 before it moved its d7 pawn), and although it has
been too few games in this match to conclude very much, it may be that its style
doesn't suit CT (and some other programs, as well).



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