Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:13:18 05/16/04
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On May 16, 2004 at 01:48:46, Johan de Koning wrote: >On May 15, 2004 at 17:37:48, John Merlino wrote: > >>On May 15, 2004 at 16:48:10, James T. Walker wrote: >> >>>On May 15, 2004 at 12:22:16, John Merlino wrote: >>> >>>>On May 15, 2004 at 10:30:51, James T. Walker wrote: >>>> >>>>>On May 14, 2004 at 21:11:54, Dann Corbit wrote: > >[SSDF stats] > >>>>>>Therefore, 200 - 87 = 113 was the last increase for ChessMaster (approximately) >>>>>>Hence, 100-150 Elo would be par for the course. >>>>> >>>>>Thanks for the stats Dann. Do you know if CM9K was tested using original >>>>>default settings or what? >>>>>Jim >>>> >>>>The SSDF tested the program with original settings EXCEPT a larger hash table >>>>and increased selective search value (to 9, I believe). Other than that, it was >>>>the default. >>>> >>>>jm >>> >>>I seem to rember they used the "SKR" settings. Also not sure if they ran CM9K >>>in the Chessbase GUI with a book not ChessMasters. I would be interested in the >>>facts. My memory is very poor these days. >>>Jim >> >>I know that they started to use the SKR settings, and lots of people complained >>that The King was getting special treatment, using "optimized" settings rather >>than "out of the box" settings. The SSDF then stopped testing the SKR settings >>and went back to the "slightly modified default". > >The engine had been tested with SKR settings, under CB and GENERAL.CTG. > >Then people complained about using learning and book that are not part >of Chessmaster. I'll skip the nasty bits here, let's just say it was >the time of year that a lot of people did not make many friends. :-) > >Then SSDF discarded the games and started testing CM out of the box. >At that point I lost contact. I did check several games though, and >the timing seemed to match the moves. That is assuming all default >(which SS=9 was), except for a larger TT size. > >... Johan Ok, that sounds right. And I'm sure you would know best how it happened. I forgot that we increased the default SS value to 9 with CM9000. jm
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