Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:09:47 05/03/01
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On May 03, 2001 at 07:10:37, Fabio Barrettone wrote:
>After the results with SS=12 against Yace, I used them against Crafty 18.08,
>but, to my disappointment the miracle didn't repeat, and, at the contrary, after
>200 games GT won only 58 vs 42 against Robert Hyatt's engine, where with the
>default setting (after 200 games) it was well above the 70%.
>
>So I tried again against Junior 6 using the Nunn positions and the results were,
>again, not confortating.
>
>GT vs J6 (Nunn positions) 10.5 - 9.5 SS=12, with SS=6: 12 - 8.
>
>So, well, poor me, I was very depressed, I should have waited to proclamate the
>settings as better, I thought. However, working a bit with the brain and
>elaborating on the things said by Christophe about SelSafety I thougth that
>maybe I could try something else, and so I've setted SS to 3 and More Gambit to
>1 (I think you could extrapolate the theory behind it).
>
>Well, till now it seems to work quite well.
>
>GT vs F6e* (Nunn positions 40 moves in 40 min., no book naturally) 16.5 - 3.5,
>normal settings: 13 - 7
>
>GT vs J6 (idem) 14.5 - 5.5, normal settings 12 - 8
>
>GT vs Hiarcs7.32 (idem) 16.5 - 3.5, normal settings 14.5 - 5.5
>
>I've also played 200 games at time 5 min. against Tiger 14
>
>GT (modified settings) - CT 14 (normal settings) 78% vs 22%
>GT (modified settings) - CT 14 (SS=3) 75% vs 25%
>
>Now, naturally, take these settings with a grain of salt, since I'm only at the
>beginning, but I think further testing would be interesting, so I hope someone
>will try them, me excluded. I could say only a thing, GT with these setting
>becomes very funny to watch.
That's interesting, and I see you understand well that a lot of testing is
needed.
Christophe
>* Yes, I've read the post about Sarah about the fact that the e version of Fritz
>is weaker so I will try next week against Fritz 6a.
>
>Well, I think that at last I've entertained someone ;-)
>
>P.S.: the 3D pieces for ChessPartner are almost ready, next week I will post an
>URL where you could download them, or I will give them to Ed, if he wants, to
>put them in his website.
>
>Becoming crazy,
>Fabio.
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