Author: Chessfun
Date: 16:26:29 01/07/00
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On January 07, 2000 at 19:12:25, John Merlino wrote: >In a chat with one of the developers of Chessmaster, he told me that during the >course of the creation of several of the new personalities for CM7000, they came >across one that they couldn't use in the program (for various reasons), but that >they felt it MIGHT be noticeably stronger than the Chessmaster personality. >Unfortunately, they couldn't get enough testing on it to determine its true >strength, so Johan's preferred settings (the ones used for the Chessmaster >personality) remain the ones in the program. > >BUT, here's how to create this potentially very strong personality: > >Take the Josh, Age 12 personality and put Strength to 100. That's it! > >Apparently, according to the developer, this personality scored +61 -18 =14 >against opponents rated 2200 and above. This also included 2 wins and 2 draws >against the Chessmaster personality (hence, the "not enough testing"). These >games were also only at Fischer 5/3 time controls, so that's where YOU guys come >in. > >It doesn't sound like the development team is going to follow up on this, >because of the completely new version of The King that's going to be in the next >version of CM, but I thought you guys might like to run with this and do some >SERIOUS testing. > >Apparently this personality was designed by Josh Waitzkin himself, and the >strength was then lowered by the development team to get his appropriate rating >when he was 12 years old. But, just for fun, they ran a few tournaments with his >cranked up personality and were quite stunned. > >Anybody up to the challenge? Many thanks in advance for satisfying my curiosity. > >jm After saying I wouldn't bother with the CM7K (I bought it) couldn't resist it, it was cheap. Anyway, installed with no problem and yet I have not been able to apply any one of the patches. I will try again. Since without the patch custom personalities cannot play tournaments it will be hard. Is it also viable to modify a CM6K personality to this setup, I guess to answer myself I see no reason why not. Thanks.
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