Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:12:20 01/14/02
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On January 14, 2002 at 18:51:13, Edwin Wigmore wrote: >I am very impressed with the performance of CM8 in this tourney. SO much so I >intend to buy the package. > >Is it just the special settings you have entered into CM that is making it so >strong, or some other reason? I note that CM8 went down to Fritz 7 horribly in >the SSDF tests which I understand was using the stadard settings. You are correct. Kurt is using special settings (I believe of his own devising). The SSDF used the default personality, which is designed to be the optimum for ALL possible time controls and ALL possible processor speeds. Therefore, when tested at tournament time controls on fast hardware, programs such as Fritz will tend to do noticeably better than the default Chessmaster personality. However, it should also be noted that the default personality tends to win blitz tournaments against almost all user-created CM personalities that have been posted here. Settings such as Kurt's are almost always designed for either tournament time controls or for lengthy analysis. Currently, I am very interested in the "Winter Rapid" tournament that is in progress. Chessmaster (i.e. The King) is currently tied for first at 4.5 out of 5, but has yet to play any of the other "heavyweights" (although, statistically speaking, it certainly could have lost to Crafty, Bringer or GLC). Gandalf is up next.... jm
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