Author: Jim Bodkins
Date: 23:32:24 06/06/03
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On June 07, 2003 at 02:17:51, Axel Schumacher wrote: >On June 07, 2003 at 00:50:53, Afzal Siddique wrote: > >>is there anything special i need to do to make these setts play better in blitz >>and what hash is optimum.. > >Well, I recommend hash 32mb. >Set the selectivity to an even, not too high number. 10 or 12, but this is not >so crucial, since I run Grailmaster7 with 14 and it plays still fine. >For Bullet go down with these numbers. > >With the good settings CM should be ranked after Fritz 8, Shredder 7.04 and CT >14, but in front of all other engines, including Junior, Hiarcs or Ruffian. > >Axel I had been experimenting with a flavor or CM called BT-. Against systems of roughly equal performance, I was having good results against everything except Fritz actually. Fritz would go either way. The others would normally lose or draw. The biggest problem that I have noticed with theking (and I wish Da Konig would look at this) is a tendancy to lose endgames. I need to look at this more closely myself. But it appears that it is either that theking doesnt do endgames as well as say Fritz or (and I have seen this) it blunders badly late in the middle game and is immediately forced into a disadvantaged endgame where it loses. This happens more often than I would like actually. But this seems to be one of the more common means of losing a game. (The other involves a serious weaknes in finding solutions deep in the endgame even with a corrected KNNK EGDB. It's embarrassing when theking playing a K and P vs a K allows the other K inside it's king and loses it's pawn. How does that happen? Even I could play that sequence correctly :) but theking is as likely to blow that as to get it right). It is fun experimenting though. (I have sworn off CB which means I may have played my last game vs CB engines. Unless they are (shredder maybe) played at ICS). Jim
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