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Subject: Re: Shep Championship 1999 Announcement

Author: Melvin S. Schwartz

Date: 17:30:16 06/08/99

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On June 08, 1999 at 14:44:03, Brian Smith wrote:

>On June 08, 1999 at 14:14:14, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 08, 1999 at 13:54:26, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>>
>>>On June 08, 1999 at 13:47:39, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>On June 08, 1999 at 12:03:26, James T. Walker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello Mel,
>>>>>I have CM5500 which was highly available on the market until CM6K came out.  I
>>>>>still believe CM6K is better and I'm willing to part with CM5500 if you really
>>>>>want it.
>>>>
>>>>Hello Jim,
>>>>
>>>>You son-of-a-gun! You have CM5500? Ahhh, but you don't have Shep's modified
>>>>version (:. Actually, I incorrectly said CM5500 when I should have said CM5555.
>>>>He modified the CM5500 into what he calls the CM5555.
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, thanks for the offer, Jim, very kind of you! If you can get Shep to
>>>>modify your CM5500, LET ME KNOW!!
>>>>
>>>>Mel
>>>>>Jim Walker
>>>
>>>It's easy to modify.  You just copy the Chessmaster personality, and change some
>>>of the sliders to whatever Shep set them to.
>>
>>Hello Dave,
>>
>>I'm afraid you're getting into technical stuff that leaves me rather helpless. I
>>have a great deal of knowledge about Vitamins, but when you get into changing
>>personalities and "sliders", my head is encapsuled in a fog :).
>>What are your thoughts about Shep's CM5555? And would you be willing to modify a
>>CM5500 - as per Shep - for me?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mel
>>>
>>>Dave
>
>All it is is setting up the differenc personalities.  100 is always the default
>for positional settings.  It'll say, for instance, Control of Center and all you
>do is change 100 from 0-200... there are other options such as King Safety,
>Mobility, Passed Pawns, Selective Serach settings, etc.  (all you have to know
>is what Shep has these settings...
>
>I'm not sure, but I think these are the settings he uses on CM5555:
>
>Style Attacker/Deffender -4; Strength of play 100; Randomness of play 0; Book
>depth 100; Maximal search depth 20;
>          Selective search 10; Contempt for draw 0.0
>  Position Material/Position 4; Control of center 100; Mobility 103; King safety
>170; Passed pawns 100;
>               Pawn weakness 125
>  Piece values Queen 10.0; Rook 5.5; Bishop 3.5; Knight 3.3; Pawn 1.0
>  Book Standard CM6000

Very interesting! However, I don't think he's using Book Standard CM6000 because
the CM5500 came out before the CM6000, unless he was able to update the book?

Mel



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