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Subject: Re: New computer chess page: WINCOMMS

Author: Joachim Denzler

Date: 14:18:41 09/10/00

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On September 10, 2000 at 12:58:26, Chessfun wrote:

>On September 10, 2000 at 08:47:52, Joachim Denzler wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 2000 at 02:03:41, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>On September 08, 2000 at 00:52:28, Joachim Denzler wrote:
>>>
>>>>In my computer chess page WINCOMMS
>>>>
>>>>http://members.rpa.net/~jdenzler
>>>>
>>>>I try to bring winboard and commercial programs together in tournaments at
>>>>different time control (mainly tournament time control).
>>>>
>>>>The intention of the page is explained in more detail there. Also, I started a
>>>>little FAQ list that summarizes basically my questions that I had a year ago
>>>>when I started with computer chess. Hopefully the answers are useful and not
>>>>wrong! Please feel free to point me to any error you find.
>>>>
>>>>Finally, a tournament is currently running with various commercial and winboard
>>>>programs (total of 17 programs). The standing in round 5 of a round robin
>>>>tournament with tournament time control is:
>>>>
>>>>1. Shredder 4    4/5
>>>>2. Fritz 6a      4/5
>>>>3. CM6000      3.5/5
>>>>4. Hiarcs 7.32   3/5
>>>>
>>>>(the best winboard engine after round 4 is SOS at place 8 with 2/4). You find
>>>>more information on the participants as well as on the hardware also on the
>>>>WINCOMMS page (the name is quite ugly - perhaps I have to change it).
>>>>
>>>>I hope that somebody will find this page useful.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Joachim
>>>
>>>
>>>Nice pages. Are you running the CM welcome tourney with the CM's
>>>manually at those time controls?. Or have you found a way of using
>>>the CM elsewhere, like a lan or over the net to autoplay?
>>>
>>>Reason I ask is the time controls are long and you make no mention
>>>of the CM settings in your settings notes.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>Ssarah.
>>
>>CM is played manually, ponder off and always manually freezing the GUI (which
>>does not work 100% for all programs, for example while fritz is running CM gets
>>5-6% of CPU, in contrast to Shredder, which manages to get almost all CPU time.
>>Reason is unclear to me).
>
>
>CM running on one machine v another program is a pain.

You are totally right!

>Maybe check out Didzis page at: http://www.konts.lv/usr/Didzis/index.htm
>
>

Great! This page I was looking for (see my FAQ list :-)). I knew this page
already but lost the pointer. Thanks for pointing again to this page.

>>You are right with the CM settings. Sorry. I should have mentioned that I took
>>the settings, which I found on your homepage. I thought that these settings are
>>standard since I read so much about CM6666 and CMQueen+. I will add a comment,
>>which states this explicitly. Actually I decided for Queen+ since you came to
>>the conclusion that it is the strongest CM setting - or am I wrong?
>
>Sorry. The notes on that CM txt document to CMQueen+ were taken from the
>person who made the settings. I need to add some other settings and change
>the notes. My own opinion is that there are a number of strong settings,
>how they perform against programs the likes of Fritz is another story
>compared to how they fair v themselves.

Well, this is in accordance with my tournament. There, the pure CM6000 performs
best up to now. Ok, no statistical significance ...

I would like to get different settings for CM from you!

Thanks,
Joachim



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