Author: John Merlino
Date: 11:35:21 05/12/03
> Hello John, > > because you are certainly _the_ expert for ChessMaster/TheKing, > I hope that you´ll be able to answer the following question - > nobody else seems to really know that: > > Has this strange King parameter ´ana´ any meaning for TheKing? > And if yes, what is its special purpose? The "ana=" parameter is the one that is used in CM9000 for the "Mentor Lines" window to request a certain number of "best lines". So, "ana=3" will produce at least 3 PVs for each depth. > And one other thing I´m still confused about: > Since a long time now I´m really impressed about King´s ability > in solving mate problems very fast. The only thing I don´t like > is, that almost everytime TheKing first finds deeper solutions > than necessary, and eventually finds a shorter (or the shortest?) > mate after some further calculation. > So I had the idea to set Kings selectivity to 0 (sel=0), and I > hoped to get _only_ the real _shortest_ mate - but without success! > Also with sel=0 TheKing still seems to calculate deeper than its > actual depth. > Now my question: > Do _I_ think ´wrong´ here (that sel=0 should work), or doesn´t > take TheKing this setting as strictly as I would believe? From what I know about the sel parameter, this should work, as "sel=0" pretty much is the same thing as using the "Solve for Mate" feature in CM9000. Could you post the position so I can test it? jm
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