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Subject: Re: CM9000 default selective search

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 23:03:00 09/18/02

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On September 18, 2002 at 20:21:31, John Merlino wrote:

>On September 18, 2002 at 19:34:03, Javier Ros Padilla wrote:
>
>>The default selective search in CM9000 is 9, while it was 6 in CM8000.
>>So it seems that default settings are changing in the direction of Kurt Utzinger
>>ones.
>
>The reason is that the average CPU is getting faster. Most of Kurt's testing (as
>well as the testing of just about everybody else who is a computer chess
>hobbyist) was done with top-end CPUs (for the time). The default selective
>search setting for CM has always been a bit behind the cutting-edge because our
>typical user does NOT have a cutting-edge CPU. But, now that P4s are more
>common, we split the difference and went with 9 (Kurt used 12 almost
>exclusively, I believe).
>

John,

Are you suggesting, that if you have a top end CPU - 1.5 Ghz+ , that selective
search of 12 might be better?

Mike


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