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From: tjf@lanl.gov (Tom J Farish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Chess for amiga
Summary: checkmate claimed strength
Message-ID: <10311@lanl.gov>
Date: 4 Jan 91 14:54:36 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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In the manual, Checkmate claims to have beaten Chessmaster 2000 9 1/2- 1/2
in a ten-game match and rates itself about 200+ points higher.  No mention
of Chessmaster 2100, but Checkmates manual estimated the strength of
2000 to be about 1850 ELO (~1950 USCF).  Chessmaster 2100 is supposed
to be ~100 points stronger than 2000, so....

If anyone buys Chessmaster 2100 and has a plain vanilla 2000, we can have a
head-to-head match!  The machines should be identical for fairness and
the time per move about 2 min to simulate a "real" game (30/1).  We
can also institute sudden death time control after that.