Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 01:10:01 06/14/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 16:23:05, Albert Silver wrote: >On June 13, 2000 at 13:44:07, Chessfun wrote: > >>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. > >I couldn't agree more and there is absolutely no reason for them to not include >autoplayer support. I know that John Merlino, who posts here, is in on the >development/testing of it, but I'm not sure how much say he has in it. Let's >keep our fingers crossed. > > Albert Silver I think John just work for the company, not sure if he has much to do with the developement or programming of it. I know in the past he has passed on views to them, and given us some info. But I think it goes as far as that. Maybe he could clear this up.
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