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Subject: Re: SSDF list

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:37:02 02/01/00

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On February 01, 2000 at 21:21:28, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 01, 2000 at 21:16:32, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>
>>When will Chessmaster 7000 appear on the SSDF list  and what is Chessmaster
>>7000's ELO?
>
>Imagine running 400 games at 40/2 manually.
>
>At least one man-year of effort, I should think, especially since computer games
>often run well over 100 full moves.  If you had to pay someone to do it, it
>would cost tens of thousands of dollars.
>
>I suspect they would be happy with volunteers.  People get in a lather when
>results are not forthcoming.  But it's definitely Mindscape's fault for not
>including any technology to enable such testing.  Chessmaster has no way to play
>games without human intervention.
>
>I have sent them a message that suggests for them to add it.


My statistics about the CCC message board say that, normally, we should now have
a message from Michael Cummings, claiming that this program is #1 in his
opinion. On the ground that it is #1 on P200MMX. :) ;)



    Christophe :)



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