Author: Joe Pechie
Date: 18:16:11 10/04/02
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On October 04, 2002 at 20:40:55, john rice wrote: >Just finished installing the download version of CT15 from the lokasoft site. I >must say the included Chesspartner 5.2 gui is better than I had expected. Having >only used the Chessbase/Fritz gui before, I was a little apprehensive about >using a new interface. Although the Chessparter gui doesn't have as much "eye >candy" as Chessbase, it is still impressive none the less. It has more of a >Microsoft Windows feel to it. >Having played around with some of the options and settings, I have several >questions about various features. > >1. I can't find an option to optimize the opening book. Maybe this is just a >Chessbase thing, but I would really like to know I'm using the best book options >available. The only book options I could find were: Variation (set at 50% >default) and Learning Strength (also set at 50% default). Common sense tells me >to set Variation to 0% and Learning Strength to 100% for maximum book >performance, but I have to wonder why these settings are not the default. > >2. Chessbase has an Optimize Strength feature that will set up the program for >best performance. I don't see this option in the Chesspartner gui. Is CT15 >already set up for best performance? Does this have to be done manually? This is done manually as far as I know. Not much to set. I threw all the hash I could to it and let it go. After setting the hash verify that the change stayed. The first time I set mine I had it play a match against Ruffian and Tiger got killed in a 6 game match. I started another one and watched the game and Tiger was getting 6-7 ply in G/10 min. I checked the hash and is was set very very low. I set it higher again and that was the last match Ruffian has won. > >3. The downloaded version was only 15MB in size. Therefore the opening book is >very small. Only a few megabytes, unlike Fritz7 which is over 200MB in size! How >can CT15's relatively tiny opening book be as good as Fritz7's huge book? I worried about that myself. You can use Rebel books also. I looked at those and they were no bigger in Century 1.2 Rebel & Tiger has one of the best book cookers there is imo. I will let others field the rest. > >4. When looking in the CT15 engine folder, the only endgame tablebases there are >the 3 man. No 4 or 5 man like the features list stated. Should I add the 4 man >tb's in the folder as well? I've already downloaded all the 5 man tb's, and have >them in another location with the path listed in CT15's directory. > >5. Last but not least, since the increment time setting does not work properly, >what is the best way to play a manual game against another computer using ficher >time controls. For example, if the time settings are 10/10 should I set my time >control to 15/0, 20/0, 25/0 or what? It is very difficult to judge what time >setting will be the most effecient. > >Overall, the Chess Tiger 15/Chessparter Gui package is very immpressive. I >strongly recommend you give it a try.
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