Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 04:44:13 06/06/03
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Do you think, that Smarthink for chessbase is stronger thatn the WB-Version? regards Joachim On June 05, 2003 at 23:58:13, Sergei S. Markoff wrote: >Hello All! > >Thank you to your attention to SmarThink project. > >I must make some explanations. >The strength of SmarThink is very depends of time control. It's because of >extremely bad method of time management. SmarThink was created for fisher-clock >and there are several problems with time management in all types of >non-fisher-clock games. It will be fixed in next version, i think. > >The current SmarThink's book is really weak. That's why it's better to use any >good book instead of native. > >SmarThink has learning and it seems to be OK. But by default it's off. See >SmarThink.ini for details. > >The ratings listed on SmarThink page means about nothing (: It's based on some >net-tournaments in which several engines was rated much higher than in SSDF, for >example. Please keep it in view. The only meaning of ratings is to show the >growth of playing strength from version to version. > >WB emulator = ChessBase WB adaptor. Nothing more. > >SmarThink has some advantages with compare to other WB engines under adaptor. >It's not cleares some statistics when GUI sends "new" and all previous moves (: >Current WB adaptor really terrible thing but we haven't anything better :( > >Why emulator? Beceuse it emulating WB under CB for engine. If your thing that >word "adaptor" is better - OK, I will replace it on my page. > >SmarThink also uses some elements of Botvinnik methods of trajectories. See >SmarThink details on SmarThink page. > >Now I'm working on SmarThink 0.17. It will be finished in next few weeks. It >will be I think 20-30 points stronger. Also will be fixed problems with time >management and will be added UCI support. > >Sincerely yours, >Sergei
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