Author: Peter Berger
Date: 09:26:54 10/06/00
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On October 06, 2000 at 11:21:32, Aaron Tay wrote: [snip] > >Does Rebel Tiger allow many ways of customising the engine? If so, sending a >copy to Daniel might stop World Cups involving CM6000 but will probably spawn a >new thread with personalities such as TigerQueen++ or Tigertest1... ! Is that >any more interesting? > >Coin tossing involving Tiger personalities ? But didn't rebel have a contest >involving finding the best playing and test taking personalities? If there is >one for the new rebel, don't you think it will spurr him to work even harder? > >CM8000 at least as winboard support, so at least the new personality can be >tested against a wider range of opponents like Crafty... Rebel Tiger does not support many ways of customizing the engine ( at least not for us users :) ). But the Rebel Century Engine contest you mentioned is most interesting I think . When I try to conclude from the reactions I think that probably a few hundred people tried to find better settings , or to make it safe :100+ . While a few interesting ones were found none that were better in real games were discovered , while a "simple" change : reducing chess knowledge from 100% to 25 % ( Century 1.2 ) would have made it . But why would one like to lessen "chess knowledge" ? It simply is not known to the user what "chess knowledge" really means , or mobility or King safety . So the chance that a better setting is found is very little . And if it were known you still would have to be able to understand what this means _and_ come about with better ideas .. Same goes for the CM settings IMHO ; while it seems to be proved that putting selectivity up and adjust Hashtables ( something that somehow suggests itself with the hardware improvements made in the meantime ) I suspect no significant discovery has been made so far . I still read the CM posts from time to time as some of them are pretty amusing and it's funny to watch that every time another one seems to win :) And every week there is something new : CMKing+++ , Test23 and so on . It might be possible that one of them is much better than the default settings ; but I really wonder how one should find out in this mess . Still the CM tournaments do have their fans and as long as the others have the chance to identify them ( example by Subject line ) I really don't think they do any harm to anybody . pete
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