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Subject: Re: To the Chessmaster specialists

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 21:22:06 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 13:05:17, John Merlino wrote:

>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

Can you get SOS to work? Also for Anmon, someone posted before in the Winboard
forum that you need to add a blank than Xboard to get it to work..

http://www.f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/messages/10045.htm




>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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