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Subject: Re: To the Chessmaster specialists

Author: John Merlino

Date: 10:05:17 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 13:02:34, John Merlino wrote:

>On March 11, 2001 at 09:15:44, Sune Larsson wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to adjust a few settings in CM. Questions:
>>
>>1) Selective Search is set at 6 as default. Do you recommend 10, 12
>>   or another number as optimal for level 45 min for the whole game
>>   up to tournament level?
>>
>>2) I plan to go for Hash 64 MB - okey number?
>>
>>3) Any new, good settings for CM? I have CM6600, CM777, CM777A.
>>   The two last ones are from Mr Kleinert.
>>
>>4) Do the following WB engines work without problems in CM?
>>
>>   AnMon, Amy, Comet, Crafty, Gromit, Little Goliath, Z-chess.
>>
>>   Any other WB:s that you are sure work fine?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sune
>
>1) Well, 6 is the default, but there is starting to be some evidence to state
>that a higher number might be better for tournament time controls. Johan is not
>yet convinced, though....
>
>2) Johan uses 16MB for his tournaments, but I would consider some number between
>16 and 32MB.
>
>3) I'm not the person to ask this....
>
>4) I know that Amy, Comet, Crafty, Gromit, Little Goliath and ZChess work.
>Although it appears to that ZChess takes quite some time to start up if it can't
>find any tablebases. I cannot get AnMon to work, but it's probably just
>something I'm doing. I've tried several other engines (as has the development
>team), and the only ones that do NOT work are Nejmet and Francesca (as well as
>Francesca MAD). They have tried to contact the authors of both of them and have
>had no reply.
>
>jm

One weird thing, though, is that Little Goliath does not appear to shut down
when sent the "quit" command. Is this a known problem?

jm



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