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Subject: Re: Hiarcs8 v CMFun Blitz - rematch!

Author: Chessfun

Date: 23:39:30 05/11/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 01:15:07, Chessfun wrote:

>On May 12, 2002 at 00:58:47, George Sobala wrote:
>
>>After reading the replies to my previous post I decided a rematch was in order:
>>CMFun had been losing a significant number of games on time, and I had not heard
>>of the wb2uci adapter before.
>>
>>So, a rematch. CMFun now running through wb2uci, 16Mb hash, 800MHz Duron, 2'
>>Blitz:
>>
>>Hiarcs8 +43 -45 =20 (49.07%)
>
>
>My last comment would be at 2' game hash could be a lot lower than 16 mb, which
>would also help. As low as maybe 2 mb, tts=2097152,  ttu=3.

I have also now set up CMFun as a UCI engine. And will run overnight same times,
same programs and books using 4 mb hash for CM, 56 mb for Hiarcs 8.

Wb2Uci.eng

[ENGINE]
Name=CMFunUCI
Author=Johan de Koning
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=tk.exe
InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm opk=997624
HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i004096
;ShowThinkingMove=true
;Logfile=true
Visible=Ponder,Hash,ShowThinkingMove,Logfile,Extras

[EXTRAS]
Opponents Pawn (opp)=cm_parm opp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Opponents Knight (opn)=cm_parm opn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Bishop (opb)=cm_parm opb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Rook (opr)=cm_parm opr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Opponents Queen (opq)=cm_parm opq=%i|spin|100|0|498
Kings Pawn (myp)=cm_parm opp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Kings Knight (myn)=cm_parm opn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Bishop (myb)=cm_parm myb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Rook (myr)=cm_parm myr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Kings Queen (myq)=cm_parm myq=%i|spin|100|0|498
Centre Control (cc)=cm_parm cc=%i|spin|100|0|600
Mobility (mob)=cm_parm mob=%i|spin|100|0|600
King Safety (ks)=cm_parm ks=%i|spin|100|0|600
Passed Pawn (pp)=cm_parm pp=%i|spin|100|0|600
Pawn Weakness (pw)=cm_parm pw=%i|spin|100|0|600
Contempt (cfd)=cm_parm cfd=%i|spin|0|-500|500
Strength (sop)=cm_parm sop=%i|spin|100|0|100
Attack Defend (avd)=cm_parm avd=%i|spin|0|-100|100
Randomness (rnd)=cm_parm rnd=%i|spin|0|0|100
Selective Search (sel)=cm_parm sel=%i|spin|6|0|12
Max Depth (md)=cm_parm md=%i|spin|999|0|999

And from Engines.ini after modifying the piece values and saving I see;

[CMFunUCI]
Opponents Pawn (opp)=114
Opponents Knight (opn)=138
Opponents Bishop (opb)=138
Opponents Rook (opr)=125
Opponents Queen (opq)=138
Kings Pawn (myp)=114
Kings Knight (myn)=138
Kings Bishop (myb)=138
Kings Rook (myr)=125
Kings Queen (myq)=138
Centre Control (cc)=100
Mobility (mob)=105
King Safety (ks)=134
Passed Pawn (pp)=105
Pawn Weakness (pw)=129
Contempt (cfd)=0
Strength (sop)=100
Attack Defend (avd)=5
Randomness (rnd)=0
Selective Search (sel)=12
Max Depth (md)=99
ShowThinkingMove=2
Logfile=1

Sarah.


>
>Only CMFun games I ever ran at fast controls were these;
>http://www.geocities.com/chessfun_1999/blitz.html
>
>However now as by your statements it don't lose on time with wb2uci then maybe
>it's time to run some CM engines in my lightning lists.
>
>Sarah.
>
>
>>CMFun performed much better with this adapter (previous match was using
>>Inbetween and the old Chessbase Winboard adapter).
>>
>>Incidentally, although my and others' results seem to show Hiarcs8 to be
>>slightly inferior to the other leading programs, I am not disappointed with my
>>purchase. I often use engines for observing games or analysis, and so far,
>>Hiarcs8 does seem to be more likely to prefer the lines chosen by GMs - but I
>>don't have statistics to back this up! (I understand Vishy Anand was said to
>>prefer Hiarcs7.32 over other chess engines for analysis.)



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