Can someone who owns Chessmaster 8000 please post Gary Kasparov's
opening book (Kasparov.obk) to the internet so that those of us with
Chessmaster 9000 can enjoy his play. As you may already know CM9000
does not come with a Kasparov personality.

AR

On 5 Nov 2003 07:28:05 -0800, (AR) wrote:

Can someone who owns Chessmaster 8000 please post Gary Kasparov's
opening book (Kasparov.obk) to the internet so that those of us with
Chessmaster 9000 can enjoy his play. As you may already know CM9000
does not come with a Kasparov personality.

I have the KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000, if you
want that. I don't know if it is any different from the Kasparov
opening book in Chessmaster 8000.

The KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000 is only 22,450
bytes--although I think all it does is tell the Reference.OBK which
openings to play.

You may also be interested in downloading quite a few free opening
books for Chessmaster from the UBI Soft website. See the below pages:

http://chessmaster8000.ubi.com/downloads.html

or:

http://www.chessmasternetwork.com/downloads.html

The file URL is:

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/chessmas...er/cmbooks.zip

With my Opera browser I was only ever able to successfully download
anything directly from the either of the above top two "Download"
webpages once--a message kept popping up from the sites saying that it
was full and asking for a log-in name and passphrase. Although I was
finally able to download the cmbooks.zip file with Internet Explorer.
If you have trouble downloading it just keep trying, possibly using
different browsers.

I will post the KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000 in
UUEncode to rec.games.chess.computer in my next post within this
thread.

I dl'd the cmbooks.zip. Thanks. Can you give us the settings for the
Kasparov personality?

Wilma

"Tet Omeg" wrote in message
...
On 5 Nov 2003 07:28:05 -0800, (AR) wrote:

Can someone who owns Chessmaster 8000 please post Gary Kasparov's
opening book (Kasparov.obk) to the internet so that those of us with
Chessmaster 9000 can enjoy his play. As you may already know CM9000
does not come with a Kasparov personality.

I have the KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000, if you
want that. I don't know if it is any different from the Kasparov
opening book in Chessmaster 8000.

The KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000 is only 22,450
bytes--although I think all it does is tell the Reference.OBK which
openings to play.

You may also be interested in downloading quite a few free opening
books for Chessmaster from the UBI Soft website. See the below pages:

http://chessmaster8000.ubi.com/downloads.html

or:

http://www.chessmasternetwork.com/downloads.html

The file URL is:

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/chessmas...er/cmbooks.zip

With my Opera browser I was only ever able to successfully download
anything directly from the either of the above top two "Download"
webpages once--a message kept popping up from the sites saying that it
was full and asking for a log-in name and passphrase. Although I was
finally able to download the cmbooks.zip file with Internet Explorer.
If you have trouble downloading it just keep trying, possibly using
different browsers.

Below is posted the KasparovG.obk opening book from Chessmaster 7000
in UUEncode:





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sum -r/size 49963/22450

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:55:32 GMT, "Wilma"
wrote:

I dl'd the cmbooks.zip. Thanks. Can you give us the settings for the
Kasparov personality?

Below are the Chessmaster 7000 settings for the Kasparov personality:

Personality: Kasparov
Opening Book: KasparovG

Style:
Attacker/Defender: -5
Strength of Play: 100
Randomness: 0
Max Search Depth: Max
Selective Search: 6
Contempt for Draw: 2.0

Transposition table: on
Deep Thinking: on

Positional:
Material/Position: 0
Control of Center: 100
Mobility: 115
King Safety: 100
Passed Pawns 105
Pawn Weakness: 100

Material: [Same settings for both sides (i.e., Own/Opposing):]
Queen: 9.0
Rook: 5.0
Bishop: 3.0
Knight: 3.0
Pawn: 1.0

Ah! Much thanks!
Wilma

"Tet Omeg" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:55:32 GMT, "Wilma"
wrote:

I dl'd the cmbooks.zip. Thanks. Can you give us the settings for the
Kasparov personality?

Below are the Chessmaster 7000 settings for the Kasparov personality:

Personality: Kasparov
Opening Book: KasparovG

Style:
Attacker/Defender: -5
Strength of Play: 100
Randomness: 0
Max Search Depth: Max
Selective Search: 6
Contempt for Draw: 2.0

Transposition table: on
Deep Thinking: on

Positional:
Material/Position: 0
Control of Center: 100
Mobility: 115
King Safety: 100
Passed Pawns 105
Pawn Weakness: 100

Material: [Same settings for both sides (i.e., Own/Opposing):]
Queen: 9.0
Rook: 5.0
Bishop: 3.0
Knight: 3.0
Pawn: 1.0

Oh, and just to make the Kasparov personality from the Chessmaster
7000 even more complete, below is the personal information it gives on
him.

On the personality selection box it gives the below information:


----------------------------------------------------

KASPAROV

Prefers open games, Sicilian defense

----------------------------------------------------


On the "Info" tab, it gives the below information:


----------------------------------------------------

Kasparov

Biography

(1963 - ) Born Harry Weinstein in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, his
name was later changed to Garry Kasparov in order to sound more
'Russian'. At 17 he won the World Junior and become the youngest world
champion at 22 by beating Karpov in 1985. Both Kasparov and Karpov
towered above their contemporaries for another ten years and treated
fans to the greatest rivalry in chess history. In 1993 Kasparov
forfeited the FIDE championship by declining to play under FIDE rules
and instead helped found the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In
1995 he beat Anand to surpass Fischer as the highest rated player
ever, but it was his games against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
that brought him some of his greatest publicity. In 1996 he defended
the honor of all mankind by beating the super-machine 4 games to 2 in
a 6 game match, but after IBM made many refinements Deep Blue came
back much stronger and in their 1997 rematch Kasparov fell (3.5 -
2.5).


Style

Kasparov calculates quickly and finds rich opening novelties, which
are usually the product of deep preparation. Often he will give up a
pawn or sacrifice material just so that his pieces have more mobility.
He often amazes spectators by choosing discarded openings such as the
Scotch Game or the sharp Evans Gambit. Basically he opens with 1. d4
and usually defends against 1. e4 with the double-edged Sicilian.


###########################

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:46:14 GMT, Tet Omeg
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:55:32 GMT, "Wilma"
wrote:

I dl'd the cmbooks.zip. Thanks. Can you give us the settings for the
Kasparov personality?

Below are the Chessmaster 7000 settings for the Kasparov personality:

Personality: Kasparov
Opening Book: KasparovG

Style:
Attacker/Defender: -5
Strength of Play: 100
Randomness: 0
Max Search Depth: Max
Selective Search: 6
Contempt for Draw: 2.0

Transposition table: on
Deep Thinking: on

Positional:
Material/Position: 0
Control of Center: 100
Mobility: 115
King Safety: 100
Passed Pawns 105
Pawn Weakness: 100

Material: [Same settings for both sides (i.e., Own/Opposing):]
Queen: 9.0
Rook: 5.0
Bishop: 3.0
Knight: 3.0
Pawn: 1.0

That's great, Tet. Thanks. So, I have the KasparovG.obk now, and the CM7k
settings. Whatever isn't there for CM9k will be set the same as the
Chessmaster personality. I'm surprised the settings for Kasparov aren't much
different from CM's settings.

Wilma

"Tet Omeg" wrote in message
...
Oh, and just to make the Kasparov personality from the Chessmaster
7000 even more complete, below is the personal information it gives on
him.

On the personality selection box it gives the below information:


----------------------------------------------------

KASPAROV

Prefers open games, Sicilian defense

----------------------------------------------------


On the "Info" tab, it gives the below information:


----------------------------------------------------

Kasparov

Biography

(1963 - ) Born Harry Weinstein in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, his
name was later changed to Garry Kasparov in order to sound more
'Russian'. At 17 he won the World Junior and become the youngest world
champion at 22 by beating Karpov in 1985. Both Kasparov and Karpov
towered above their contemporaries for another ten years and treated
fans to the greatest rivalry in chess history. In 1993 Kasparov
forfeited the FIDE championship by declining to play under FIDE rules
and instead helped found the Professional Chess Association (PCA). In
1995 he beat Anand to surpass Fischer as the highest rated player
ever, but it was his games against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
that brought him some of his greatest publicity. In 1996 he defended
the honor of all mankind by beating the super-machine 4 games to 2 in
a 6 game match, but after IBM made many refinements Deep Blue came
back much stronger and in their 1997 rematch Kasparov fell (3.5 -
2.5).


Style

Kasparov calculates quickly and finds rich opening novelties, which
are usually the product of deep preparation. Often he will give up a
pawn or sacrifice material just so that his pieces have more mobility.
He often amazes spectators by choosing discarded openings such as the
Scotch Game or the sharp Evans Gambit. Basically he opens with 1. d4
and usually defends against 1. e4 with the double-edged Sicilian.


###########################

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:46:14 GMT, Tet Omeg
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 22:55:32 GMT, "Wilma"
wrote:

I dl'd the cmbooks.zip. Thanks. Can you give us the settings for the
Kasparov personality?

Below are the Chessmaster 7000 settings for the Kasparov personality:

Personality: Kasparov
Opening Book: KasparovG

Style:
Attacker/Defender: -5
Strength of Play: 100
Randomness: 0
Max Search Depth: Max
Selective Search: 6
Contempt for Draw: 2.0

Transposition table: on
Deep Thinking: on

Positional:
Material/Position: 0
Control of Center: 100
Mobility: 115
King Safety: 100
Passed Pawns 105
Pawn Weakness: 100

Material: [Same settings for both sides (i.e., Own/Opposing):]
Queen: 9.0
Rook: 5.0
Bishop: 3.0
Knight: 3.0
Pawn: 1.0

Tet I did not see any UUENCODE file with any of your posts. I use
Google Groups and I don't know if that supports UUENCODE files. Could
you possibly email the Kasparov.obk file to me at
' ? After all you said it was only 22k.
Incidentally the CM9000 opening books are small also, so they still
must be using a reference book.


Wilma you probably want to set Kasparov's selective search up to 9.
All of the historic chessmasters in CM9000 use nine including the
Chessmaster personality.

Anthony

On 6 Nov 2003 15:22:59 -0800, (AR) wrote:

Tet I did not see any UUENCODE file with any of your posts. I use
Google Groups and I don't know if that supports UUENCODE files. Could
you possibly email the Kasparov.obk file to me at
' ? After all you said it was only 22k.
Incidentally the CM9000 opening books are small also, so they still
must be using a reference book.


Wilma you probably want to set Kasparov's selective search up to 9.
All of the historic chessmasters in CM9000 use nine including the
Chessmaster personality.

Anthony

Google Groups does not allow binaries. Although I previously emailed
you a copy of the post to rec.games.chess.computer containing the
KasparovG.obk file. Apparently it must have not made it to you.

I have emailed another copy of the file to you.

"AR" wrote in message
m...

[snip note to Tet]
Good point. Thanks, I will.
Wilma

Wilma you probably want to set Kasparov's selective search up to 9.
All of the historic chessmasters in CM9000 use nine including the
Chessmaster personality.

Anthony