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Subject: Re: THE GAME: Chessmaster/Quark

Author: Vine Smith

Date: 23:38:45 05/24/01

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On May 24, 2001 at 17:59:25, John Merlino wrote:

>On May 24, 2001 at 03:06:57, Vine Smith wrote:
>
>>A question about analyzing with the King -- apparently, analysis can only be
>>done by the default Chessmaster personality, so I can get only the default 1 MB
>>of hash? Can I change this somehow? If I adjust the "ttable" variable in >cm.ini, it just immediately gets set back to 0 by the program.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Vine Smith
>
>Two comments:
>
>1) You can "analyze" with any personality, including WinBoard engines (if they
>support the "analyze" command. Just make the personality that you want to
>analyze one of the players in the game, and set the time control to "Infinite".
>That should do the trick.
>
>2) You can change the hash table size of the Chessmaster personality (for
>analysis/mentor features only!) by editing the CM.INI file and adding the
>following:
>
>[mentor]
>ttable_size=N
>
>where 'N' is the number of MEGABYTES you want to allocate for the hash table.
>
>The old "ttable" entry is no longer used (and actually gets deleted if you
>create one).
>
>jm
Thanks! I'll go with the second option, since I prefer using the analysis
window.
Regards,
Vine Smith



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