Author: Chessfun
Date: 10:44:07 06/13/00
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On June 07, 2000 at 05:33:40, Michael Cummings wrote:
>On June 06, 2000 at 20:49:48, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Michael you probably have done enough CM testing at 40/2 but you have never
>>tested CM=10 vs CMQueen+ at any time control.
>>
>>Pichard
>
>My answer to that is this. I could take your CM Queen setting and maybe change
>one parameter by a point. This would make, depending on what I changed very
>little difference to your personalitiy strength, and mine would be pretty much
>identical.
>
>So no matter what setting you say is the best, there will always be more
>settings to test.
>
>I also have little doubt that you have tested all of the other personalities
>that have been floating around since the release of this program, and even going
>back to CM5000, in which some setting were transfered from and altered.
>
>I have had numerous settings better than the default. And also had good result
>against the SS=10, even beaten it on numerous occasions. But in the long run
>after much testing I settled on CMSS=10 settings.
>
>I had a CM6Cummings personality which in my limited testing beat all the other
>settings floating around at the time. But in the end gave up on it, I had spent
>long enough testing.
>
>One setting might beat all other CM settings, but it may loose against another
>chess program, where as the setting that lost in the CM tournaments, can usually
>beat another chess program.
>
>That said test what you like, give your result, and hopefully at the end you
>will feel as though you achieved something.
>
>Unless CM8K makes up for the CM7K disgrace, then no matter what settings you
>use, chessmaster will be dead in the serious chess community and no one will
>care.
>
>CM6K had a buzz around it. CM7K fizzed out very fast.
Hi Michael,
Can you post or send me your CM6Cummings settings?.
For the rest of your post I agree testing settings with small incremental
changes is laborious.
CM8K must must must have an autoplayer for it to be worth anything.
Thanks.
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