Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 05:45:26 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 07:36:33, Lin Harper wrote: >On March 30, 2001 at 07:23:58, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On March 30, 2001 at 06:53:48, Lin Harper wrote: >> >>> Well I'm not expert, but I'm prety sure you'll find this is at >>> least part of the problem. They should have set selective search >>> quite a bit higher as default on CM8K. Default is just one ply. >> >>I thought that default is 6 plies. >> >>I know that it is the case with chessmaster6000 and based on analysis of Jhon >>marlino I got the impression that default is 6 plies also for chessmaster8000. >> >>I do not understand the reason for choosing default=6 plies because I find that >>chessmaster is usually faster in solving test position with selective search=10 >>plies(it is for chessmaster6000 and I have not chessmaster8000). >> >>I know that a program may be a better solver and not a better player but I saw >>no clear evidence that chessmaster(ss=6) is a better player. >> We'll have to get this one cleared up. Mine seems to have a default > of just one ply. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe others > (CM owners) can tell us what there's is. I had to create a personality on > my CM8K to set ss=6, and only then did it do any good as a solver. I can > only assume a big ss is also good for playing, especially against a > deep searcher like Fritz. I'm using the patch, but I don't think ss > was a bug to be fixed in the original. The default settings for my CM8 (European version) was: SS=6 and hash 1 Mb. I have changed that to: SS=12 and hash 64 Mb. Sune
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