Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 05:06:42 07/25/01
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On July 25, 2001 at 05:27:51, Jouni Uski wrote: >On July 25, 2001 at 05:20:16, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>There have been some negative voices heard about this program. Statements >>like "just pushing wood around with no plan" etc. Also the results haven't >>been too good. A lot of effort has been put down to test different settings >>in CM8, with some fruitful results. My question is if anybody has done the >>same with Nimzo 8? A while ago I read some suggestions of changing the >>"Middlegame mobility" from default 24 to 48 - and the "Endgame mobility" >>from 10 to 20. But I'm not sure about the results. Then there are other >>parameters in Nimzo like "Weight king safety", "Weight pawn structure", >>"Futility cutoff", the different "Piece values" and also the styles of >>"Solid", "Aggressive", "Offensive" and "Allround". >>If not an absolute top program, at least it should be possible to make >>the playing style interesting and attractive. >> >>Any comments are welcome. >> >>Sune > >Can somebody also try to get more from DeepFritz and Chess Tiger by changing >parameters :-) > >My own feeling: waste of time. The programmer must him/herself found the best >settings! > >Jouni Why bother to post when you have nothing to offer? Sune made a very inyeresting point, being that CM8 has been probed, tampered with and turned upside down because some people (myself included) felt there was more to CM8 than the results suggested. The same (if not already done) should be done with N8. Regards Jonas
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