Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:42:55 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 05:52:17, Rainer Neuhäusler wrote: >Who fixed the standard settings of the CM8000? And ist it the strongest setting >in the opinion of J. de Koning and J. Merlino ? > >Perhaps this could be simple questions to J. Merlino. > >Rainer The settings for the Chessmaster personality are believed to be the strongest FOR ALL TIME CONTROLS AND ALL HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS -- this last part is VERY IMPORTANT to remember! CM8000's minimum spec machine is a PII-233 with only 48MB of RAM. This is why the default personality only has a 1MB hash table. If (knowledgable) users want to increase the strength for their hardware or personal needs, then they can easily do so. The default personality is designed for our default user, which is IN NO WAY representative of the typical member of this board. The ONLY personality setting that MIGHT improve play UNDER CERTAIN GAME SITUATIONS with modification (other than the increasing the hash table size, obviously) would be the "Selective Search" value. But, a value of 6 is best for ALL time controls. I promise you, if you play a blitz tournament on a PII-233 with one personality being the default and the other having a 32MB hash table with SS=12, the default one will be stronger. People have confused the idea of strongest OVERALL with strongest FOR TOURNAMENT TIME CONTROLS. These two are not NECESSARILY the same (although they might be -- nobody has proved anything either way). Not only that, the SS setting is now even in doubt, as some people have recently posted personalities that they feel are the strongest that only have SS=8. So, in other words, there's absolutely no proof that the default settings (apart from the hash table size) are not the strongest for tournament time controls. jm
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