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Subject: Re: CM9000 - Material/Positional option.

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 21:54:00 05/28/03

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On May 28, 2003 at 21:02:12, John Merlino wrote:

>On May 28, 2003 at 20:31:54, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On May 28, 2003 at 20:07:18, Brian Thomas wrote:
>>
>>>The material/positional is not used, AFAIK, by the engine, it is used by the GUI
>>>as a modifier for other values.  So, it is possible to translate the settings,
>>>just go by the engine parms.
>>
>>Aren't *all* the material and positional personality values each affected by the
>>mat/pos slider? I think so... he cannot simply take the other values (only) as
>>they appear in CM. That would be another personality then in Wb2Uci, than in CM
>>when the mat/pos slider isn't zero.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mike Scheidl
>
>You are correct. The M/P value can greatly modify MANY other values. So, if you
>want to TRULY translate a personality created in the CM GUI, then you have to
>see exactly what values are being passed to the engine (via a method that has
>been described elsewhere, in which you use an engine that has logging in place
>of The King and see what the GUI passes the engine).
>
>jm

     As a result of this, many people are playing under Fritz-GUI
     with settings that are simply impossible for CM9-GUI and therefore
     somewhat worthless. I give you below an example of CM8777 settings
     having amended params for material/position and from where we can
     see what will happen to the params for use under Fritz-GUI:

Chessmaster parameters under Chessmaster 9000 GUI
CM_8777 (Kleinert) settings (chessmaster.cmp)

A/D  (Attack/Defender)    [  -2]    M/P  (Material/Position)  [  10]
S/P  (Strength of Play)   [ 100]    C/C  (Control of Center)  [ 105]
Rand (Randomness)         [   0]    MOB  (Mobility)           [ 115]
MSD  (Max Search Depth)   [  99]    K/S  (King Safety)        [ 150]
SS   (Selective Search)   [  12]    P/P  (Passed Pawns)       [ 110]
C/D  (Contempt for Draw)  [   0]    P/W  (Pawn Weakness)      [ 125]

OWN              OPPONENT
Queen   [119]    Queen   [119]
Rook    [ 65]    Rook    [ 65]
Bishop  [ 41]    Bishop  [ 41]
Knight  [ 39]    Knight  [ 39]
Pawn    [ 11]    Pawn    [ 11]

Transposition Table  [32 MB]    Ponder On
Player Type:  CustomPlayer       Gender: Female
____________________________________________________________________

Logfile output with Crafy 18.1 (under CM9 GUI)
CM 8777 settings (Kleinert)

Crafty v18.1

White(1): xboard
White(1): cm_parm myk=320853 opk=765928
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): post
White(1): new
White(1): level 0 6:40 0
 game/6 minutes primary time control
White(1): cm_parm default
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): cm_parm opp=103 opn=121 opb=127 opr=121 opq=123
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): cm_parm myp=103 myn=121 myb=127 myr=121 myq=123
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): cm_parm cc=112 mob=123 ks=160 pp=117 pw=133
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): cm_parm cfd=0 sop=100 avd=-2 rnd=0 sel=12 md=99
Illegal move (ambiguous): cm_parm
White(1): cm_parm tts=33554432 ttu=7
____________________________________________________________________

The King 3.23 (UCI) with textfile [under Fritz-GUI]

;---- CM8_Kleinert.txt
; A personality CM 8777 created by Stefan Kleinert, GER
cm_parm opp=103 opn=121 opb=127 opr=121 opq=123
cm_parm myp=103 myn=121 myb=127 myr=121 myq=123
cm_parm cc=112 mob=123 ks=160 pp=117 pw=133
cm_parm cfd=0 sop=100 avd=-2 rnd=0 sel=12 md=99
;---- File end




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