Hello , mostly it depends what opening come on the board, do the computer know ore understand what is be done ,ore needed in itYarc wrote:I don't know what it is about the Cosmos, but it seems to be very good against some stronger and much faster opposition. All these dedicated machines suffer far more from the horizon effect than say Stockfish on a super fast PC. Maybe it only takes a poor positional assessment and several moves later they can be in trouble irrespective of their speed. This is why several games (min 10) should be played before a slightly more accurate result can be realised.the mighty grob wrote:Hi,
on a setting of game in 60 MCG quite easily beat Novag star diamond and mephisto atlanta I have only played one game against each and didn`t record moves. Seemed to play with "technique" winning without really trying. Rather like my Berlin (has won lots of games using very little of its allotted time!)has done on many occasions, however a game in 30 against the portable expert (cosmos) was drawn.
Just discovered and joined these forums and will record games in future.
I have the following:-
Mephisto London 68000,Atlanta, Master,Cougar(expert @ 50% speed up - could be interesting!? although Selective search gives them both the same rating) Expert, Talking chess academy, Nigel short.
Novag star diamond
A few good matches in there! God we dedicated fans have been starved.
I haven't pitted the Cosmos against the Star diamond yet, that could be interesting considering the 10 game match I played between the MCG and Cosmos was almost a draw. The MCG won the last game! In my current match with the star diamond at 40 moves in 2 hours, the MCG trounced the SD in the first two games and won the third in an end game. I think the difference in chess rating between these two machines (about 39 ELO going by the result of the 2015 1st Chess friends of the world match discussed earlier) should make this a much closer match. But the SD is not doing great at the moment.
A fact is that the Kittingers do not like the Lang programs, as the Lang do not like Morsch and J.de King .
SD maybe setting solid is much better for it , well...i am pretty sure about it extensions : OFF
Lang have chess knowledge and play healthy chess, is not a attacker and waits for a opponents error .
Morsch not many knowledge ,calculates very deep in positions lose mostly in endgame ,not much knowledge in endgame
Kittinger , attacker pur sang ,always wants to attack ,do give pawns for active play ore open lines
Good luck with the games ,and i looking forward to seen them
Kr,Hans