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 <snip.> >jm
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