Author: James T. Walker
Date: 10:12:30 11/30/00
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On November 29, 2000 at 19:56:29, John Merlino wrote: >On November 29, 2000 at 18:58:13, William Penn wrote: > <snip> >To answer your questions: > >-- Each checkbox allows you to toggle whether or not you want to see that >engine's current thinking output. Therefore you can see White AND Black at the >same time if you check both boxes. There is also a third box that lets you see >the "Mentor" engine. This engine has several functions: advice, analysis, solve >for mate, etc. When any of those functions are running, having this checkbox >selected will allow you to see the appropriate output from that engine (which is >always The King with the Chessmaster personality, by the way). If NONE of these >functions are running, AND the Chessmaster personality is not one of the players >in the current game, checking this box will allow you to see Chessmaster's >opinion of the current position. ************************************** Hello John, This is a revelation for me about CM8K. It means that when I create an "alternate ChessMaster" with 32Meg Ram for hash tables and then "check" the "Chessmaster" box while running my alternate personality, the original Chessmaster engine starts up and I have two engines running at the same time. So I need to only check the "black" or "white" box for which side my alternate Chessmaster is playing to watch its thinking without starting up a 2nd engine. Jim ************************************** > >-- Your example of the thinking output "going in the wrong direction" is >explainable. Basically, (in your example) e5 was given a score of 0.07. After >FURTHER searching, The King discovered that e5 actually had a worse score than >Re8's 0.15. Therefore, Re8 became the chosen move. You are not told what e5's >NEW score is, but this is what happened. > >-- Human-defined personalities will score positions differently from >Chessmaster, obviously, because of their different personality settings. When >you have the White checkbox checked, you are seeing White's opinion of the >position, NOT Chessmaster's (unless Chessmaster is playing White, of course). >Therefore, using a personality such as Logan (who is strong but has a very low >contempt for draw) can produce very odd thinking output, because one or more of >the settings are quite a long way from the "ideal" settings used for the >Chessmaster personality. > >I hope that answered your questions. If not, let me know.... > >jm
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