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[Tulpa | 3,494]

I said before the chess engine in the original Chessmaster program is rated at human expert level, roughly Elo 2000. Good enough to beat most casuals most of the time, but a master player would hand it its ass.

Looking into it further, it was a lot tougher to accurately rate computer programs on the Elo scale back then. On the low end, it's probably got the skill of a good club player. Hardly a "chess master", though.

 

edit: For comparison, Battle Chess's Elo rating is a paltry 1500.

Edited December 12, 2023 by Tulpa

[Estil | 1,264]

13 hours ago, the_wizard_666 said:

On max difficulty, Chessmaster would take hours between moves.  It's not that it's unbeatable, it's just that most people wouldn't want to spend a week or two playing one round of chess.

You know in the old days there was correspondence chess...

 

Edited December 13, 2023 by Estil