Author: Lex Loep
Date: 23:46:07 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. > These options are only when 'Use GUI books' is selected. The default installation lets the engine handle its own book. >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? > You have to do in manually, the only parameters you would need to change is the hashtbable size and possible the path to the endgame table bases. >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? > The size of the book is 7.8 MB, its called ct.tbk. The book is made by Jeroen Noomen and is one of the best books around. The size of a book say nothing about its quality. I could take a million GM games and generate a book from it, it would be very big but not of good quality. >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. > Under Extra -> Engine propertie - EndGame Make sure you have set the Tablebase path in there. >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. > I cant tell, I generally don't do this sorts of test but perhaps Christophe or one of the testers can tell. >Overall, the Chess Tiger 15/Chessparter Gui package is very immpressive. I >strongly recommend you give it a try. Thanks, Lex
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