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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