JVMerlino wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:13 am
The King still surprises me sometimes. This is v3.12, from Chessmaster 9000 in 2002, on old hardware, getting around 585KNPS, and finding a mate in 15 in four seconds.
Very impressive by The King. MadChess solves it in 4 hours 19 minutes, ha ha.
Most of the games in Chessmaster 9000 are from 40 years ago, some even earlier than that. That's a long time ago.
People back then didn't have so much chess knowledge and understanding as we have amassed today.
Magnus Carlsen won't make the same positional mistakes as world champions did back then like Paul Morphy, Emmanuel Lasker or Wilhelm Steinitz for example.
Chessmaster 9000 is good for a history lesson about the history of chess but it's not more useful than that.
I would advice NOT to trust the website you quoted when it is about millennium products.
In opposite I would advise to read the official millennium product website that is
JVMerlino wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:13 am
The King still surprises me sometimes. This is v3.12, from Chessmaster 9000 in 2002, on old hardware, getting around 585KNPS, and finding a mate in 15 in four seconds. I tried several other engines, and only Crafty 25 (JA build) came close at 7 seconds (at 1 core, like The King), even though it needed more than 10x the nodes. To be fair, Crafty did improve to Mate in 14 much faster than The King did.
I can't replicate this at all. I tried with Chessmaster GM Edition (King 3.50) and mate was not found. I gave up after about 45 minutes.
JVMerlino wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:13 am
The King still surprises me sometimes. This is v3.12, from Chessmaster 9000 in 2002, on old hardware, getting around 585KNPS, and finding a mate in 15 in four seconds. I tried several other engines, and only Crafty 25 (JA build) came close at 7 seconds (at 1 core, like The King), even though it needed more than 10x the nodes. To be fair, Crafty did improve to Mate in 14 much faster than The King did.
I can't replicate this at all. I tried with Chessmaster GM Edition (King 3.50) and mate was not found. I gave up after about 45 minutes.
I can confirm that Chessmaster9000 does find a mate very quickly.
On my computer which runs Windows XP 32 bit with an Athlon64 2.2Ghz cpu it takes just 6 seconds.
JVMerlino wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 8:13 am
The King still surprises me sometimes. This is v3.12, from Chessmaster 9000 in 2002, on old hardware, getting around 585KNPS, and finding a mate in 15 in four seconds. I tried several other engines, and only Crafty 25 (JA build) came close at 7 seconds (at 1 core, like The King), even though it needed more than 10x the nodes. To be fair, Crafty did improve to Mate in 14 much faster than The King did.
I can't replicate this at all. I tried with Chessmaster GM Edition (King 3.50) and mate was not found. I gave up after about 45 minutes.
I can confirm that Chessmaster9000 does find a mate very quickly.
On my computer which runs Windows XP 32 bit with an Athlon64 2.2Ghz cpu it takes just 6 seconds.
OK, I was today able to replicate the result with Chessmaster GM (11). Amazing that the program reports a mate in 15 at a nominal search depth of 3.
JVMerlino wrote: ↑Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:19 pm
From the image, and the personality name, I can see that you're using a custom personality. Did you choose the settings yourself?
I just used the standard default settings apart from hash = 64 MB and pondering off.
The latest patch for the program had been applied a long time ago.
i.e. chessmaster_9k_v1.02a.exe
