Author: John Merlino
Date: 08:08:45 10/24/01
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On October 24, 2001 at 10:04:01, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On October 24, 2001 at 04:44:18, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On October 23, 2001 at 22:22:38, John Merlino wrote: > >[snip] > >>I believe that the default personality is usually not good for test positions >>(espacially when there is a forced mate) and it is better to use bigger >>selectivity. >> >>My experience showed that at least for chessmaster6000 ss=10 is better than ss=6 >>for finding mates. >> >>Uri > >ss=10 means 10 plies of forward pruning. That's complete suicide >in computer-computer games. This is pretty much what Johan has been saying all along. He has been open to the POSSIBILITY that REALLY fast hardware might overcome a higher SS value, given a long enough time control. But this is why the default for CM has been 6 for so many years -- it is THE BEST value for all possible time controls on all possible hardware combinations, according to Johan's testing. jm
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