Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:11:30 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 21:02:47, john rice wrote: >I have a few questions/comments about cm8k: > >1. Is there any way to disable the opening movie! >2. I have 256m of ram but the max Transposition Table setting is only 128m. Can >this be set higher somehow? >3. Is there anyway to reset the Transpositon Table after completing a game? I >always reset the hashtable in fritz6 after each game and it seems to play >stronger. >4. For the opening book I use CM8000. Is it the best? >5. Strongest settings for style/positional/material? It seems the only useful >tweaks would be: selective search, contempt for draw, transpostion table, all of >the positional settings and perhaps material points settings. > >As you can see I am new to the chessmaster programs. It doesnt seem as strong as >fritz6. Perhaps with some tweaking, it might be able to beat it. I did play one >game against fritz6. Chessmaster (white) on my 1ghz thunderbird vs fritz6 >(black)on my 333mhz celeron. 10 minute game with 8m hashtable. It was a draw!!!! To answer your questions: 1) There is no way to disable the opening movie. The FASTEST way to get past it is to copy it to hard drive. It will therefore load faster, meaning you can cancel it faster. 2) The maximum hash table setting available to you is based on your CURRENTLY AVAILABLE PHYSICAL RAM. Therefore, you will never be able to use the 256MB setting, because your machine has 256MB, but some of that will always be used. You DEFINITELY wouldn't want a 256MB hash table anyway, if your machine only has 256MB, because an IMMENSE amount of thrashing would occur just trying to allocate that memory. 3) The program will reset The King engine's hash table after every game automatically. 4) It is generally believed that the CM8000 book, while the deepest, is not the best book available. However, no one has yet agreed which of the OTHER books are guaranteed to be better. 5) I leave personality setting suggestions to many of the other users here, who have done far more testing in that field, and all have their own opinions on the matter. I can only tell you that Johan, the writer of The King, believes that the default settings are the best for a general personality (i.e., one that is going to be playing against all kinds of opponents and all kinds of time controls). jm
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