Author: John Merlino
Date: 09:51:53 05/20/03
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On May 20, 2003 at 10:24:51, George Tsavdaris wrote: >On May 20, 2003 at 08:56:44, Andre van Ark wrote: >> >>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 ;) >> >Johan de Koning didn't know the settings of Kurt Utzinger? It seems very >strange to me. Anyway i disagree with Mr Johan, as it is obvious that at >least CM9000 with SKR settings is considerably stronger than CM9000 default and >i think that many many games have been played to say that. Of course this is >true at long time controls (40'/40 and up) and as i have seen not in blitz. >So in overall performance, perhaps the standard settings are the best. But >if Mr Johan is hearing i would advice him to pay a little more attention >in SKR settings and hope that the next vesion of the King (if there will be one) >will have standard settings something similar to SKR, although it will not be so >good in blitz, but i think that's OK, as true chess is not blitz. >My congratulations also for the perfect performance of his great program, and i >hope there will be a CHESSMASTER 10000. I can't live without the Chessmaster. Johan does know the SKR settings, as he and I discussed them (and several other settings that had some success in user tournaments). I think it is most accurate to say that he was not CONVINCED that these settings were better than the default. Johan spends a great deal of time testing his engine, and his testing results in the settings that are used in the program. Johan then usually will test out his theories/suspicions in tournaments such as Leiden. Ultimately, it would be silly to say that somebody else knows The King better than (or even as well as) Johan. jm
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