Originally posted by RahimKYes it has many opening trees, it seems that it just chooses an opening at random. I checked and it is using all opening trees and databases.
Sorry I wasn't talking about database. I was actually talking about opening tree, or opening key. Does it have one? The chessmaster I have never played weird opening moves like this. This position in a db, I could only find 60 some games. So it's like CM is trying to get us out of the db or maybe a hand from up above is control CM actions 🙂
It is also possable the short amount of time i am allowing it (5 min) could be causing it to not completly analyze all databases.
Originally posted by TenguNxd5
Shall we take a moment to consider, imho, the awesome qxd5?
😉
no, i didnt think so.
nxd5 please
that's 3 for Nxd5.
No, I don't think the time effect the opening tree. In fact, the less time you give it, the more it relys on opening trees.
O well, whatever 🙂
I got the idea for the chessmaster vs rhp from this game. It is a game with chessmaster 8000 (I have the 10th edition) vs the web.
I though I might put it here for you veiwing pleasure.
Here is a little about it:
The face of chess changed in 1999 when Kasparov took on the World via the Net. It was the largest interactive competition in history and introduced countless people to the joys of e-mail chess. In a similar challenge Chessmaster got Black by a random flip of the coin and had an hour to decide its move vs. "The Web" which had the remainder of the day (23 hours) to vote on its reply. The machine was winning rather easily but left its king in the corner too long, then made a few inferior moves. The world's lucky escape sheds some light on the difference between how machines and humans think.
Here is the pgn:
[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2001"]
[Round "?"]
[White "The Web"]
[Black "Chessmaster 8000"]
[TimeControl "0/0"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "oft "]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.O-O O-O 8.c4 c6 9.Qc2 Na6 10.a3 Bg4 11.Nbd2 Nxd2 12.Nxd2 Qh4 13.g3
Qh5 14.Qb3 Rab8 15.cxd5 cxd5 16.Re1 Nc7 17.Nf1 Ne6 18.Be3 Bc7 19.Nd2 Bb6 20.Qb4 Nd8 21.Bf4 Nc6 22.Qa4 Bxd4 23.h4 Rbc8 24.Qb5 Bb6
25.Be3 Nd4 26.Qa4 Qe5 27.Kg2 Qf6 28.Bg5 Qc6 29.Qxc6 Rxc6 30.Re7 f6 31.Be3 Bc8 32.Re1 Bc5 33.Bxd4 Bxd4 34.b4 Bb2 35.Nb1 Be5 36.f4
Bd4 37.Rd1 Bb6 38.Rde1 Bd8 39.R7e2 Bg4 40.Rd2 Bb6 41.Bc2 d4 42.Bb3+ Kh8 43.Rc2 Bd7 44.Re7 Rd6 45.Nd2 Bc6+ 46.Kf1 Rd7 47.Rxd7
Bxd7 48.Nc4 Bc7 49.Na5 Bxa5 50.bxa5 Bc6 51.Kf2 a6 52.Re2 Rd8 53.Ke1 d3 54.Re3 d2+ 55.Kd1 g6 56.Bc4 Ba4+ 57.Bb3 Bb5 58.a4 Bc6
59.Ke2 Bg2 60.Bc2 f5 61.Bd3 Rd4 62.Kxd2 Rxa4 63.Re5 Ra3 64.h5 Kg7 65.g4 fxg4 66.hxg6 hxg6 67.Rg5 Bf3 68.Rxg6+ Kf7 69.Rg5 Bc6
70.Rxg4 Rxa5 71.Kc3 Ra4 72.Rh4 Bd5 73.Rh6 a5 74.Rd6 Bc6 75.Bc4+ Ke7 76.Re6+ Kd7 77.Re5 Kd6 78.Re6+ Kc7 79.Re7+ Kb6 80.Re1 Ra3+
81.Kd4 Rf3 82.Ke5 a4 83.f5 Ka5 84.Be6 b5 85.f6 Be8 86.Rh1 Bg6 87.Rg1 Re3+ 1/2-1/2
I hope you enjoyed it.