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Subject: Re: I Dicover a new Setting for CM6000, much stronger than CM6666

Author: James

Date: 08:30:02 04/15/00

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On April 15, 2000 at 09:18:28, blass uri wrote:

>On April 15, 2000 at 08:30:42, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>So far this has been the best Setting for CM6666, which sometimes even beat
>>Fritz 6a.
>>
>>                   Setting for CM6666
>>
>>Style          Positional            Material
>>
>>AD   3         M/P  -3               OQ   9.9
>>SOP  100       COC 103               OQ   9.7
>>
>>R    0         MOB 104               OR   5.0
>>MSD  20        KS  134               OR   5.0
>>
>>SS   10        PP  100               OB   3.3
>>CFD  0.0       PW  134               OB   3.3
>>
>>TT = ON                              OK   3.2
>>DT = ON                              OK   3.2
>>
>>                                     OP   1.0
>>                                     OP   1.0
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>By mixing the original Anand Setting with the Material setting from CM6666,  I
>>finally discovered a much stronger setting, which just won a mini match of 50
>>games in 15 minutes per side, using an AMD K6 II 500 Mhz with 128 MB of RAM.
>>When I matched CM6666 setting against my new CM8888, which I just renamed,
>>CM8888 won
>>38 out of 50 games.
>>
>>                       Setting for CM8888
>>
>>Style          Positional            Material
>>
>>AD  5          M/P -5                OQ   9.9
>>SOP 100        COC 105               OQ   9.7
>>
>>R   0          MOB 120               OR   5.0
>>MSD 20         KS  100               OR   4.9
>>
>>SS  8          PP  110               OB   3.2
>>CFD 1.0        PW  100               OB   3.2
>>
>>TT = ON                              OK   3.1
>>DT = ON                              OK   3.1
>>
>>                                     OP   1.0
>>                                     OP   1.0
>>
>>If you already have CM6000, it is very easy to set up a new setting, Just click
>>under Game and Click the set up a Personality, once you set the new values for
>>your new Setting Don't forget to save it. If you are having hard time to set the
>>new setting using your mouse and Bar , simply Click the bar and use your arrows
>>key.
>
>I think that using different values for your queen(rook) and your opponent's
>queen(rook) is a bad idea.
>
>Maybe it works against most programs because they have no idea how to play when
>there are queens in the board(I see that programs without the name chessmaster
>are often bean counters in queens endgames and do not understand the importance
>of passed pawns in these endgames) but I do not believe that it is a good idea
>against chessmaster personalities.
>
>It is not going to be a good idea against other programs when programs get
>better so I suggest to stop suggesting not equal numbers for material.
>
>Uri



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