Author: Albert Silver
Date: 20:23:54 04/04/01
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On April 04, 2001 at 22:23:32, John Merlino wrote:
>On April 04, 2001 at 21:30:30, rubidio wrote:
>
>> I don't want to offend you, But perhaps people are trying to help this engine
>>(the king) to get out of the mediocrity. Chessmaster is a cheap product intended
>>to sell in supermarkets( nothing wrong with this). But, The King is a
>>world class engine and deserve better settings that untie its strenght. So in
>>the next version perhaps a power user room in the cm gui? With analisys options
>>and different settings?
>
>I'm not offended by your post, and I hope you're not offended by my reply. The
>King's settings are believed to be the best for all time controls and all
>hardware configurations (as I mentioned in detail in the post that is a few
>"above" this one). We have to think of our typical user, and design the product
>for that person, rather than the computer chess enthusiast (which is a VERY
>SMALL portion of the people who buy Chessmaster) who wants the strongest
>possible engine out of the box.
>
>But perhaps calling Chessmaster a "cheap product" is a little severe (unless you
>are referring to its price).
>
>The Game Room IS the "power user room", because you can do anything you want
>there: create and analyze with any personality, set up any position, look up
>database statistics, etc.). Chessmaster 8000's main design intention was to give
>the power user (once again, a very small portion of the people who buy the
>product) more of what he/she wanted, without making it too difficult or
>intimidating to our typical user (who, in many cases, is only barely computer
>literate).
>
>Chessmaster is unique among all of the programs mentioned on this board in that
>it has a completely different audience than Fritz, Rebel, Tiger, etc., and this
>drives much of the design/implementation decisions for the game. And, once
>again, the old axiom of "never do anybody half a favor" is starting to ring
>true.... ;-)
>
>jm
I wonder about the settings of the SSDF now. I remember asking about the
settings used and was told flat out by Bertil Eklund that he had made
suggestions regarding CM6000's settings, thus they weren't leaving the default
as were (including increasing the hash tables, quite correctly). I could be
mistaken, but I think the SS (selective search) was a factor that was set, or at
least considered, I don't remember which exactly anymore.
Albert
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