Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:25:41 03/31/01
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On March 31, 2001 at 02:25:48, Harald Faber wrote: >On March 30, 2001 at 14:02:23, John Merlino wrote: > >>On March 30, 2001 at 03:45:40, Harald Faber wrote: >> >>>On March 29, 2001 at 01:18:32, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>Where are now all CM enthusiasts?! What do they say? Pichard? >>>> >>>>Jouni >>> >>>I'd like to read some comments about >>> >>>1. opening book >>>2. hash size >>>3. time control >>> >>>1. is a known problem that there is only a small and not adjusted opening book. >>>2. is only unclear >>>3. There have been reported some bugs with some time controls; is there some >>>fast moving or other strange behaviour in the games so far? >> >>1. The opening book is not THAT small, as it has approximately 45,000 moves in >>it (although many of them will not be played and they are just there in case the >>opponent plays them). But, yes, there is no book learning in the program. >> >>2. For 40/120 games, Johan suggests a 32MB hash table (or perhaps a 64MB for a >>VERY fast processor). The SSDF is using a 32MB hash table. >> >>3. The SSDF is using the patched version, so there is no problem with certain >>time controls. >> >>jm > >So what kind of explanation would you give for this ugly result against DF so >far? :-) I guess that CM8000 is simply not strong enough. I am not sure if it is better than chessmaster6000. I also doubt if it is clearly better than chessmaster6000 in the past and I did not get a convincing answer. I did not buy chessmaster8000 because of this reason. Uri
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