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Subject: Re: what was cm9000 running on when it beat gm Larry Christensen

Author: Rex

Date: 15:46:50 06/15/03

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What would you recommend the best settings for analysis positions would be on
lets say a 1.5~2.0 GHZ CPU.  tnx


On June 15, 2003 at 17:35:13, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 15, 2003 at 17:30:04, sean lentz wrote:
>
>>Also what is cm9000 strongest personality and how do you change the
>>personalities from boby fischer back to cm and so on
>>
>>thanks
>>sean
>
>We used a Dell Pentium 4 2.4GHz machine in the match against Larry. The only
>changes we made to the default personalities were to up the hash table
>allocation to 64 MB, and change the selective search values to 9. Other than
>those changes, all of the settings for the four personalities (Alekhine,
>Botvinnik, Fischer and Chessmaster -- in that order) were default.
>
>The "strongest personality" in CM9000 completely depends on what you want to do
>and how fast your computer is. Analysis? Long time controls? P3-750MHz or
>P4-3.0GHz? I can't answer this question unless you give me more information.
>However, all else being equal, the Chessmaster personality is the strongest of
>all personalities that come with the game.
>
>If you want to change the personalities, just go to "Game -> New Game" (CTRL+N),
>choose the button that looks like a computer (there are two, one for white and
>one for black), and then click the "Select" button. This will bring up the
>"Select Personality" dialog, in which you can choose any personality you like to
>play that side of the game.
>
>jm



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