Author: José Carlos
Date: 00:41:54 05/22/03
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On May 21, 2003 at 14:33:40, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
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>After further reflection and one night sleep I have [after consulting
>chessfriend Rolf Bühler] come to the following decision:
>
>1.)
>The section "Chessmaster" on Homepage "Kurt & Rolf Chess":
>http://www.beepworld.de/members39/utzinger
>will again be opened as we do not want to "punish" the computerchess community
>and the Chessmaster fans. This site will however no longer be updated.
>
>2.)
>Chessmaster 9000 or The King 3.23 [in particular CM9_SKR] may still be
>integrated in our tournaments, but the program is being dealt with like all
>other engines [no special comments].
>
>3.)
>We abstain from creating/testing new CM9-settings.
>
>4.)
>No comments whatsoever will be published about Chessmaster [The King] in the
>future.
>
>5.)
>Final remarks:
>
>From our long experience with the great [and often underestimated] TheKing
>engine we can say the following:
>
>- default parameters may be best as overall setting
>- there are some better settings than default at longer time controls [40'/40
>upwards]
>- strong settings at blitz level are seldom worth testing at longer time
>controls
>- strongest settings at higher time controls are in most cases less reliable at
>blitz level
>- different methods of implementing The King/settings under Fritz-GUI lead to
>other results
>- play at least 300 games [50 games vs 6 engines] to find out if a setting is
>good
>- do not play CM9_X vs CM9_Y to determine strongest CM-setting
>- even slightest amendments of CM9-params may have greatly influence playing
>strength
>- 32 MB hash is enough and perhaps best for The King [anyway not more than 64
>MB]
>- reproduction of moves played during games is often not possible
>- best CM settings for analysis [test positions] may not be best for tournament
>play
>- and just our opinion/feeling: The King plays stronger outside the CM9-GUI
I'm not sure what all this story is about but, I can guess:
- personality setting is interesting for the users, but more interesting for
the author, as users can find new and stronger settings without much effort from
the author
- Johan seems to be intelligent enough to succeed in winning tournaments
- in a short live tournament surprise is very important, I don't expect
_any_ author to use default settings nor default book for such an event
- if Johan would decide to use your settings, he'd probably not say a word
about it
- if he though your settings are best, he'd probably want to confuse the
competence saying default settings are best
...
José C.
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