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Subject: Re: The King at Leiden

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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