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Subject: Re: Fritz 7 engine Settings with two Different AMD Computers!

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 09:14:38 02/28/02


On February 27, 2002 at 21:44:42, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On February 27, 2002 at 17:13:12, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>On February 26, 2002 at 18:57:02, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>On February 26, 2002 at 17:21:31, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 26, 2002 at 15:31:57, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 26, 2002 at 15:12:23, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On February 26, 2002 at 14:41:03, Bernardo Wesler wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Can anyone help me to configure the best engine parameters for fritz 7 and blitz
>>>>>>>5 min games?
>>>>>>>Thx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm not sure if this is easy to improve, but in my view F7 gives away the bishop
>>>>>>to fast so I like to improve Bishop values a little.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Torstein
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>That is easy to improve, simply assign a value to the bishop a little bit higher
>>>>>than the knight.
>>>>
>>>>The hard part is to know if it is really an improvment.
>>>>
>>>>Torstein
>>>
>>>
>>>I Have been testing my settings of Fritz 7 on two different AMD computers and my
>>>settings is scoring a little bit higher.
>>>
>>>AMD Athlon 1.2 Ghz Settings:              AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Settings:
>>>
>>>Contemp value    = 15                     Contemp value   =   15
>>>
>>>Selectivity      =  2                     Selectivity     =   2
>>>
>>>Tablebase depth  =  3                     Tablebase dep   =   3
>>>
>>>Futility Pruning = On                     Futility Pruning = On
>>>
>>>Aggressiveness  = 2                       Aggressiveness  = 2
>>>
>>>Value Computer Queen  = 95                Default
>>>
>>>Value Computer Rook   = 50                Default
>>>
>>>Value Computer Bishop = 33                Default
>>>
>>>Value Computer Knight = 32                Default
>>>
>>>Value Computer pawn   = 10                Default
>>>
>>>The difference in these two computers are not too noticeable, but the slower AMD
>>>Athlon 1.2Ghz won a short match of 15 games by a small margin of 2 games at G/30
>>>blitz.
>>>
>>>Jorge
>>
>>The default values of the engine parameters for the piece values in Fritz 7 are
>>all zero. I had always assumed it was an offset, so it could be set to plus or
>>minus values, but it seems as if you've been setting values in decipawn units,
>>based on the traditional piece values (9,5,3,3,1). There doesn't seem to be a
>>description included with Fritz 7 itself, unless I've missed something?
>
>
>The problem with the traditional piece values of (9,5,3,3,1) is that it becomes
>impossible to give the bishop a little bit more weight than the knight;
>for instance, to give the bishop a 4 would be a terrible mistake in comparison
>to the pawn's value and it doesn't represent the bishop in proportion to the
>knight.
>
>Jorge

Thanks, Jorge, but my query was actually about something else. How did you know
that you had to set the piece values to Q=95, R=50, B=33, N=32, P=10, instead of
something like Q=-10, R=0, B=5, N=-5, P=0 ?



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