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| Jan-12-08 |
| xrt999: Larsen vs Huebner, 1979 In my draw against chessmaster 6000, Huebner and I reached the same position on move 10. In Huebner's game, his dark square bishop retreats to the passive e7 square and he tries to gain control of the d-file. (b8 is blocked by the queen.) In my game, I retain control of the h2-b8 diagonal, try to pry open and control the d-file, while maintaining pressure on h2. After a knight trade I am able to retreat my DSB to b8, where it is very active. |
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| Feb-23-08 |
| James Demery: Is there a way to play Chessmaster 10 without leaving the CD in my laptop all the time? Shouldn`t you be able to download it and just access it from your laptop? |
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Mar-23-08
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| timhortons: <james demery> i once was using a laptop until its mother board burn, a guy like me whos living in front of computer screen should not use a laptop, i think you could run it with out inserting a cd after u download it, anybody here who experience using the grandmaster edition of chess master?my 10th ed is still serving me good, theres no point really buying fritz for my pc is entry level one, i cannot fully utilize the power of fritz on slow computer |
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| Jul-24-08 |
| Hector Maluy: Chessmaster 11 drew Rybka 2.2! It seems that the new edition plays strong enough to beat Fritz! What do you think?
btw, time controls of the game were 30-60 seconds/move. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| YoungEd: I have Chessmaster 8000, and I really enjoy the annotated games and endgames by Josh Waitzkin. Do the newer versions have games in addition to/instead of the ones on 8000? That would make buying a newer version attractive. If not, I'm happy to let CM 8000 continue kicking my sorry rear from pillar to post. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| Shams: <Is there a way to play Chessmaster 10 without leaving the CD in my laptop all the time? Shouldn`t you be able to download it and just access it from your laptop?> you should be able to, but this is the second prong of their copy protection. there are workarounds-- get a tool like Alcohol to help you make an ISO image. Then install a virtual drive (section of your hard drive that mimics a cd-rom drive) and run the image from there. Alors, voila! |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| MaxxLange: I run Fritz 10 in a VM on my Mac this way. I can define that the Fritz 10 .iso is loaded into the virtual CD drive and just work. I appreciate their desire to stop free copying of their work, but, after spending $500 on their programs over the years, I am done. I refuse to be treated like a criminal any more when I am a legitimate buyer. "Insert your Fritz disc for a "refresh"" No thanks. |
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| Feb-24-09 |
| WhiteRook48: why is there a human face on Chessmaster's picture? |
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| Feb-25-09 |
| Illogic: That's the iconic 'ChessMaster' of course.
This image was on always on the box of the various iterations of Chessmaster software. |
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| Feb-25-09 |
| The beginner: <YoungEd>
I belive chessmaster 11 has some new annotated games. There is a new section by josh Waitzkin phycology in chess or something. So id say it was worth it. Chessmaster is the best package for anyone wanting to improve their play if they are beginner or intermidiate in skill. All the tutorials and annotated games alone makes it worth buing. You get material here presented in a very good way, that would otherwise require you to buy several chess books. Its not good to analyse games with, and the database functions is very limited, compared to other more profesional programs like Fritz. So best is to get both.
Fritz ( or similar engines, Rybka etc.. )is by far the best to analyse your games, and build up a database. But these programs are very poor when it comes to instructions. Whereas chessmaster, has a huge collection of tutorials and other instructive lessons. If you want a chess program to play with, its a draw id say. They way they do it in chessmaster is more fun, you get to play with various personalitys. but its very anoying having to wait ages for them to move, and they never resign. Even when they are dead lost, you have to play the whole game out until checkmate. This can be quite anoying and time consuming. Fritz is more sterile there are no peronalitys or anything just chess, wich can make it a litle boring compared with chessmaster where you want to beat the next personality all the time. Also chessmaster is not that strong as other engines, although it dosent really matter unless you are a really strong player like IM or higher you wont beat it anyway. |
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| Feb-25-09 |
| YoungEd: Thanks, <The beginner>. That's helpful. I agree with you that the database and analysis tools in CM are of limited value. But as you say, I enjoy the different tutorials and the different levels of play that the personalities offer. Maybe you're right--I should think about getting CM for fun and Fritz for study. Thanks again. |
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Feb-25-09
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| timhortons: I thing about the cm is that you could buy it even in futureshop(geekstore in canada) while the rest of the chess software you buy it online or in a special chess store. I had cm 10, and i had rybka 3 for analysis of games. |
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| Mar-04-09 |
| James Demery: When playing against Chessmaster would one have a better chance of winning a 20 minute game or a 120 minute game? A person would have less time to think per move , but so would the computer , but of course the computer can see moves so quickly. |
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| Mar-04-09 |
| chessman95: <James Demery> That's a good question. I'm not sure if the time limit would benefit the computer or the human more. For the human, the time limit doesn't matter very much because we weed out most moves to evaluate anyway, but the weakness would be playing a bad move under time pressure. A computer on the other hand would not make any mistakes from the time limit, but instead would play at a "level" lower than it would if it had more time. For me, I usually lose to computers because of stupid mistakes that they always exploit, but if the human player was a strong GM who didn't make many mistakes I think the time limit would affect the computer more than the human. |
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| Mar-05-09 |
| James Demery: I keep going back and forth on this chessman. A longer game would reduce the chances of a time trouble blunder as you say, but it also gives the computer time to evaluate more lines. |
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| nimh: For humans more time means relatively more gain in strength than for comps.
It's been estimated that each additional ply adds roughly 50 elo points. So 1 s per move instead of 15 minutes would result in only less than 500 elo weaker performance.
What do you think, would Topalov be able to play 2300 chess if he had only 12 seconds per 40 moves? |
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Mar-05-09
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| timhortons: rybka2 under the time control of 3 minute was mated by nakamura with 8 knights and 6 bishop,I doubt if somebody could do these to rybka 2 in a time control of 45 minutes.. He discovered how rybka work in certain position and take advantage of it.These prompted rybka team to improve there chess software . Nakamura for the record never beat rybka 3, hemanage to draw it once using his old method against rybka 2. |
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| Mar-05-09 |
| chessman95: Another weakness of computers under time control is falling into traps. Sometimes they won't see a trap that is several moves ahead. I once got a computer under time control to fall into the Noah's Ark Trap in the Ruy. |
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Mar-09-09
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| nimh: We know that humans never fall into traps. |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| akapovsky: I find chessmaster 8000 to be really weak I,ve even managed to beat capablanca mode and kasparov and several draws with steinitz and chessmaster modes.It is extremely over rated. |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| James Demery: What time control were you playing at? Larry Christiansen lost 3 out of 4 games to CM at 120 minutes per game. I think he was playing CM 9000. I`m not sure if it would make that much of a difference between CM 8000 and CM 9000. |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| James Demery: I was mistaken in my earlier post. Larry C had 1 win 2 losses and 1 draw. |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| James Demery: By the way I was shocked when I got CM 10000 and discovered it had many great GM`s from the past , but it no longer had Kasparov. I like to match up the personalities against each other to see the contrasting styles against each other. I tried to match up Fischer against Kasparov and discovered there was no Kasparov. Kashdan , but no Kasparov. Incredible not to include arguably the greatest player of all time. Why not drop Kashdan and include Kasparov? |
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| Mar-28-09 |
| akapovsky: I was playing 67 minutes each side fischer style.I totally agree on the whole Kasparov issue. |
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| Mar-29-09 |
| vesivialvy93: James demery...probably because Kasparov ask for money to put his name in that game...it's more a question of laws and rights than anything else...maybe i'm wrong ??!! |
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