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Subject: Re: After 12 rounds CM9K Tourney 5-0

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:17:09 09/09/02

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On September 09, 2002 at 12:26:22, Sandi Ordinario wrote:

>On September 08, 2002 at 21:20:26, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>On September 08, 2002 at 19:55:01, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>
>>>On September 08, 2002 at 19:07:08, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>CM8K is ahead of CM9K by 1/2 game.  Drawmaster Logan has not lost game! 3 rounds
>>>>to go.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Name                Wins    Draws   Losses  Games   Score
>>>>Waitzkin               5       4       3      12     7.0
>>>>Capablanca             3       0       9      12     3.0
>>>
>>>This "Waitzkin" personality doesn't match the real man... and that "Capablanca"
>>>personality, isn't it drunk?
>>>
>>>A. Ponti
>>
>>Keep in mind that this is a G/5 tournament, in which anything can happen. Also,
>>if the default settings are being used, then the tournament is being played with
>>pondering on, so the engines are only getting <50% of the CPU.
>>
>>jm
>
>Hi Jim,
>I recently got my pre-ordered CM9000 and am happy about the performance on my
>PIII 900Mhz laptop. My question is how do you get the "pondering on" feature be
>off so that it would even perform stronger against humans like myself? Thanks.
>Sandi

I assume you want to turn pondering OFF so that it will NOT be as strong against
humans? Correct?

Either way, to turn pondering off, you need to create a copy of the personality
that you want to play against, and set pondering off in its settings. You can do
this by going to "Game -> Set Up Personality", then selecting the personality
that you want to copy with the "Select" button. After you have loaded that
personality, deselect "Pondering" and save the new personality with a name such
as "CM No Ponder".

That should do the trick.

jm



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