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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