Author: John Merlino
Date: 17:52:48 10/08/02
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On October 08, 2002 at 19:42:19, Brian Thomas wrote: >The irony here is, yes, I know :) > >The idea is to do this in winboard (or some platform outside chessmaster) and >ultimately understand how the different engines behave. That's why I'm trying >to learn what settings affect what; for example, handicapping Fritz within >Fritz doesn't mean anything outside of the Fritz GUI. > >I've read of certain drawbacks (such as accessibility to books and databases) >depending on how engines are imported and weaknesses of diffeerent protocols. >Being completely new to this (and again this is just for fun) I can't very well >gauge how a 3rd party engine is behaving when I import it into chessmaster if I >don't know how the settings work. CM may destroy it and it may be because I've >screwed up the settings, or it may be because CM is more powerful. My 5 minute >test proves that I've screwed up the settings. > >So, what's not pointless is that I've learned that doing comparisons fairly is >no easy task, and actually I'm pretty much done, tired of doing it! > >Brian The MAIN thing that you need to know is that, if you intend to use The King engine outside the CM GUI (or by importing it into the CM GUI), then you need to be familiar with how the OPK number works. Your best bet is to go to: http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/cminfritz/cminfritz.html That should tell you pretty much everything you need to know about the OPK situation. However, there are MANY posts here from people who cannot get engine X to work in GUI Y, so don't feel too bad. jm
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