Author: Andre van Ark
Date: 05:56:44 05/20/03
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On May 20, 2003 at 01:41:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On May 19, 2003 at 22:15:12, Hans van der Zijden wrote: > >>On May 19, 2003 at 13:48:02, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>On May 19, 2003 at 10:38:53, Pradip Udayakanth wrote: >>> >>>>Does anyone know where i can get sets of leiden king? >>> >>> Nobody knows for sure the settings of The King at Leiden. Only >>> Johan de Koning does, but he is perhaps not interested to give >>> these details. We have also no knowledge about the changements >>> of the versions of Fritz8 and Shredder704 played at Leiden. And >>> that's o.k. People should test the published and sold engines >>> instead of thinking about the programmer's trial to improve their >>> engines. >>> Kurt >> >> >>I know the settings of The King at Leiden. I asked Johan saturday after someone >>asked the same question here at CCC. I posted Johan's answer the next day. He >>played with default settings with one change. The King's queen was set at 101%. >>Johan used 30 MB for hashtables. >> >>Hans > > In that case it's indeed a surprise that The King did so well. We have > played so much games with this engine that we can tell this for sure. I > think this time it was the opening book that contributed very much to > the good result. And furthermore: at Leiden played a DOS version of > The King. I have no idea how this may have a positive influence too. > Kurt Hi Kurt, In Leiden I told Johan about your settings and your homepage and guess what??? He simply does not believe that the King plays better with other settings, and if I alerted him at your site he said that there are played too less games to say that your settings are better then the standard ones. He is a bit.... well, how shall I put it? But it is true he won in Leiden and the winner is always right ;) Kind regards, Andre van Ark
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