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Subject: Re: Need help with CM 9000 and WB2UCI

Author: Manfred Meiler

Date: 16:04:45 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 18:38:31, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>On January 03, 2003 at 16:51:35, Manfred Meiler wrote:
>
>>Ralph, my english is rather bad - so only a short explanation by me:
>>
>>a) Hash option
>>When you select the King engine in Fritz gui with F3 you're able to set the
>>hashtable size; then select with right mouse click in the analysis windows
>>"Properties" and you'll see "Hash Size (MB)" in the window "Engine parameters:
>>... (Engine name)".
>
>
>Ahh, now I see Hash! I never brought that dialog up using Engine Pane -> right
>click -> Properties before! Funny that it's different from using F3 -> Engine
>Parameters though. Thanks, I guess our setups are working the same.
>
>
>>b) Personalities
>>The Wb2Uci.eng file that I've sent to you is based on the "pre setup" method of
>>Odd Gunnar Malin - look at the end of file "Engines.txt" (part of Odd Gunnars
>>Wb2Uci.zip file).
>>This method of selecting different CM settings in Fritz gui works fine for me.
>>But okay, it's up to you how you use these files.
>>
>>Manfred

>
>
>Yes, I use the "pre setup" method exactly as you do and it does work fine. All
>I'm saying is that when you first fire up The King in Fritz, it will be the
>Chessmaster default personality. The only way I can see to bring it up as a
>different personality by default _without_ having to select it from the combo
>box is to send the commands in the InitString. It just saves time if you prefer
>a particular custom personality as default.
>
>Ralph


Ralph, there's another way to define single CM engines with different settings
...
Instead of the above mentioned "Pre Setup" Wb2Uci.eng use the following
Wb2Uci.eng - representing the CM9000 engine "The King 3.23" with default
settings:

[ENGINE]
Name=CM 9000
Author=Johan de Koning
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=Program=C:\Program Files\Ubi Soft\Chessmaster 9000\TheKing.exe
InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm opk=123456
HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i004096
ShowThinkingMove=true
;Logfile=true
Visible=Ponder,Hash,ShowThinkingMove,Logfile,Extras

[EXTRAS]
Opponents Pawn (opp)=cm_parm opp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Opponents Knight (opn)=cm_parm opn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Bishop (opb)=cm_parm opb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Rook (opr)=cm_parm opr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Opponents Queen (opq)=cm_parm opq=%i|spin|100|0|498
Kings Pawn (myp)=cm_parm myp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Kings Knight (myn)=cm_parm myn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Bishop (myb)=cm_parm myb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Rook (myr)=cm_parm myr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Kings Queen (myq)=cm_parm myq=%i|spin|100|0|498
Opponents Centre Control (opcc)=cm_parm opcc=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponents Mobility (opmob)=cm_parm opmob=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponents King Safety (opks)=cm_parm opks=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponents Passed Pawn (oppp)=cm_parm oppp=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponents Pawn Weakness (oppw)=cm_parm oppw=%i|spin|100|0|600
Kings Centre Control (mycc)=cm_parm mycc=%i|spin|100|0|600
Kings Mobility (mymob)=cm_parm mymob=%i|spin|100|0|600
Kings King Safety (myks)=cm_parm myks=%i|spin|100|0|600
Kings Passed Pawn (mypp)=cm_parm mypp=%i|spin|100|0|600
Kings Pawn Weakness (mypw)=cm_parm mypw=%i|spin|100|0|600
Contempt (cfd)=cm_parm cfd=%i|spin|0|-500|500
Strength (sop)=cm_parm sop=%i|spin|100|0|100
Attack Defend (avd)=cm_parm avd=%i|spin|0|-100|100
Randomness (rnd)=cm_parm rnd=%i|spin|0|0|100
Selective Search (sel)=cm_parm sel=%i|spin|9|0|16
Max Depth (md)=cm_parm md=%i|spin|999|0|999

Based on this default CM9k engine now you can create another UCI engine with
different settings (e.g. Pillen settings) in Fritz gui by

a) menue "Engine | Create UCI Engine ..."

b) with the button "Browse" go to your folder "C:\Program
Files\ChessBase\Engines\TheKing323" and choose the file "Wb2Uci.exe"

c) after loading process press the button "Parameter..." modify in the
following window "Engine Parameters:..." the values (e.g. for Pillen settings
look at the "CM9_Pillen.txt", then press "Save" and "OK"

d)  in the window "Setup UCI engine" now change the engine name (in the
line "Name:") to "CM 9000_Pillen", then press "OK"

Now it's a new UCI engine "CM 9000_Pillen" defined which you can choose in Fritz
7 with "F3".

Manfred



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