Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 15:58:55 08/09/99
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On August 09, 1999 at 03:37:21, Shep wrote: >Hi all, > >I know I've kept you waiting long enough, so here they finally are, the >requested Chessmaster 6666 settings (last results: draw with Fritz, loss to >Nimzo 98, both 60/game on two PIII-550; overall result now 7:3 for 6666). > >As I said, they are, much like the 5555 settings, a clever (?) combination of >settings that were already known, namely the Bednorz settings for CM 6000 and >the piece values mentioned in a recent posting, based on the big statistics >survey by IM Kaufman (IIRC), with some small adaptations: > >Attacker/Def.: 3 >Sel. Search: 10 >King safety: 134 (Bednorz has 133) >Mobility: 104 >Mat/Pos.: -3 >Passed pawns: 100 >Pawn weakness: 134 (Bednorz has 133) >Center control:103 > >Pawn: 1.0 >Bishop: 3.3 (Kaufman had 3.25; this is "CM 5555 style") >Knight: 3.2 (dto.) >Rook: 5.0 >Queen: 9.9 (Kaufman had 9.8 but suggested 9.75; Bednorz settings >opp. queen: 9.7 had "queen = opp. queen + 0.2", thus this choice) Can I ask how you decided that these were very good settings? Is it mostly based on "feel", or test suites, or tournament games, et cetera? How much computation was performed before deciding on these settings? Dave
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