Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:09:33 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 14:08:07, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 04, 2001 at 13:42:55, John Merlino wrote: > >>On April 04, 2001 at 05:52:17, Rainer Neuhäusler wrote: >> >>>Who fixed the standard settings of the CM8000? And ist it the strongest setting >>>in the opinion of J. de Koning and J. Merlino ? >>> >>>Perhaps this could be simple questions to J. Merlino. >>> >>>Rainer >> >>The settings for the Chessmaster personality are believed to be the strongest >>FOR ALL TIME CONTROLS AND ALL HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS -- this last part is VERY >>IMPORTANT to remember! CM8000's minimum spec machine is a PII-233 with only 48MB >>of RAM. This is why the default personality only has a 1MB hash table. If >>(knowledgable) users want to increase the strength for their hardware or >>personal needs, then they can easily do so. The default personality is designed >>for our default user, which is IN NO WAY representative of the typical member of >>this board. >> >>The ONLY personality setting that MIGHT improve play UNDER CERTAIN GAME >>SITUATIONS with modification (other than the increasing the hash table size, >>obviously) would be the "Selective Search" value. But, a value of 6 is best for >>ALL time controls. I promise you, if you play a blitz tournament on a PII-233 >>with one personality being the default and the other having a 32MB hash table >>with SS=12, the default one will be stronger. >> >>People have confused the idea of strongest OVERALL with strongest FOR TOURNAMENT >>TIME CONTROLS. These two are not NECESSARILY the same (although they might be -- >>nobody has proved anything either way). >> >>Not only that, the SS setting is now even in doubt, as some people have recently >>posted personalities that they feel are the strongest that only have SS=8. So, >>in other words, there's absolutely no proof that the default settings (apart >>from the hash table size) are not the strongest for tournament time controls. >> >>jm >Without testing chessmaster I am almost sure that the best setting is unknown. >There are many parameters and finding the best numbers seems to me to be an >impossible task. > >Uri Which is why there are always threads like this.... <sigh> jm
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