Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:14:27 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 05:30:58, Rainer Neuhäusler wrote: >On April 04, 2001 at 13:42:55, John Merlino wrote: >>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 > >Hello Mr. Merlino! > >Many thanks for your answer. Yes I understand your philosophy of an average >machine. Hash, maybe selectivity are the variable parameters. But all the other >default settings are the strongest for every hardware and for all time controls. > >But many people for example Germans don't believe this and they are testing and >testing... and they perhaps find one day the most powerful settings for the King >Engine. But then there already is the Chessmaster 10000 and so on ..... > >I am Bavarian, I believe you Mr. Merlino ;-) But tell me the following if you >know it: > >Which settings uses Johann de Koning if he takes part in a tournament with the >Chessmaster 8000? (But don't say he's using the King Engine in a special GUI, >please!). > >You check it out or you tell me how I can get this "Secret of Johann de Koning". > >Yours sincerely > >Rainer from Munich in Germany I asked Johan about his setup for the last Dutch Computer Chess Championship. -- He used v3.12 of The King (the same engine in CM8000). -- The processor was a K7-550 (pre-Thunderbird), as reported on the website. -- Since The King is now a Winboard engine (i.e. a DOS console program), he used DOS 6.2 with a DOS4G extender. Unfortunately, you would probably consider this a "special GUI" ;-) -- He used a 15MB hash table. -- He used a special anti-computer opening book written by Cock de Gorter, but claims that there were no "obvious" book wins in this tournament. jm
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