Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:31:22 11/21/02
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On November 21, 2002 at 02:58:22, Stuart Smith wrote: >Hi John, I play most of my games against on CM9K against the Chessmaster for two >main reasons; he seems most likely to stick to the strongest opening book moves >(which I am keen to practise) and he makes the replying moves very quickly so I >don't have to wait long to get thrashed ;-). If I play, for example, Josh 8 yrs >old, he takes several minutes per move - why? The "young Josh" opening books are much smaller, so it is much easier to get out of book sooner against against those personalities than it is against the Chessmaster personality. Also, different combinations of settings can result in a kind of "indecisive" personality. Depending on the time control, this can cause a personality to take quite some time to make its moves once it is out of book. >A lot of the analysis shows no comments against a particular although it does >show a resultant score which is of some use; what I would like to see is 'if you >did this or this or this ...' type of output. Which is something I was planning for the next version.... >Finally, I use the 'Advice' option quite often and get slightly frustrated when >after setting time to 300 seconds, it provides a sequence of moves; I make the >first move suggested and then CM makes a completely different move to the one >predicted. You gave the engine 300 seconds to give you advice, but how long did the program have to make its move once you made your move? Was it also about 300 seconds? If it was a very different amount of time, that would easily explain the different reply. The "mentor" engine and the engine(s) playing the game do not communicate in any way; they are completely separate entities. >p.s. now that I have 1Gb RDRAM should I change the hash table size from the >default - if so, how do I do this? You need to make a copy of each personality that you intend to play against and change the hash table size for each one of them. If you want to change the hash table size for the mentor engine, then you need to "Preferences -> Mentor" and change that setting in that dialog. jm
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