Author: John Merlino
Date: 12:01:58 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 14:56:24, John Merlino wrote: >On November 28, 2002 at 04:42:40, Ricardo R Santana wrote: > >>Hello All >> >>we ( I mean the interested people) could ask a patch for Ubisoft that changes >>the default settings to UTZ personality. SO, this way, we may ask SSDF to test >>CM9000. But.... where should we send an email ? >> >>thanks >>Ricardo Sant Ana > >It will never happen, for many reasons. > >1) The people who are now in charge of the development of Chessmaster probably >have no knowledge of this board, and probably care very little what is said >here. > >2) The Utzinger settings are, in the words of their author, known (and have been >shown in several tests) to be worse at faster time controls than the default. >Since the typical CM user just likes a nice casual (and short) game of chess, >this will result in lower quality play. > >3) The Utzinger settings are, in my personal opinion, probably worse than the >default on slower machines, as one of the main points of these settings is to >get deeper in a shorter amount of time. Since the typical CM user DOES NOT have >a high-end machine, as opposed to many enthusiasts on this board, this would >also result in lower quality. > >4) The default settings are also used for ALL analysis features. Given the >default times of analysis for these features (usually 10 seconds), this would >either also result in a lower quality of play, or force the developers to change >the default times for these features to something much longer (at least 30 >seconds), which most users will not want to wait for. > >5) The Utzinger settings have not been tested by Johan, and HE has the final say >about what the default settings should be. > >6) If the only reason you want these settings to be the default is so that the >SSDF will test them, then that is DEFINITELY not a good enough reason (as far as >Ubi Soft) is concerned. Most people have never heard of the SSDF list, and >sitting on top of that list for one cycle is not going to be any big deal to the >marketing/advertising people who promote Chessmaster. It CERTAINLY isn't going >to be as big a deal as the victory over GM Christiansen, which was accomplished >with settings that come with the program. > >jm And, by the way, it is my complete guesstimation that a patch for CM9000 will not be produced until at least February. It is going to take quite some time for the new developers of the program to get comfortable with the very large beast that is the Chessmaster development project, which consists of close to 400 different code modules, a dozen different tools, and several CDs worth of data. This is another reason why changing the default settings for the CM personality will not be on anybody's todo list for the program. So, I would guess that you should not expect anything any time soon. jm
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