Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 07:15:55 09/28/03
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On September 27, 2003 at 21:15:03, Johan de Koning wrote: >On September 26, 2003 at 12:44:42, John Merlino wrote: > >>0:33 13/17 0.00 8912233 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q >> a1=Q 5.Qxa1 >>2:38 14/18 3.11 37142500 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=B >> Ka3 5.Kc2 b3+ 6.Kc1 Ka4 7.Kb2 Kb4 >> 8.Bg7 Kc4 9.Ka3 Kd5 10.Kxb3 Ke4 >> 11.Kxa2 Kf5 > >You're right about Mihaly and Mike not using default settings. >Not because they don't want to, but because there seems to be a(nother) little >twist to using The King outside Chessmaster. > >The engine itself starts up with a default value for Selective Search of 6, >and then receives CM's default settings which include sel=9. > >In other words, without sending explicit settings (except for opk and tts) the >engine stays with the old default sel=6, which translates to 1 in endgames. >Since this position involves zugzwang, lower sel helps. BUT!, in most middle >games the default sel=9 or eg SKR's sel=12 will be a bit or a lot better. > >... Johan Johan, thank you for the explanation. I set the sel value to 9 in my TheKing.eng file and now the engine shows the same PV in (almost) exactly the same time with the wb2uci adapter as in Chessmaster. Good to know such details. Best wishes Mihaly New game 8/7p/6pP/1B4P1/pp6/1k1K4/8/8 w - - 0 1 Analysis by The King 3.23d: 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 µ (-0.88) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1.Bc4+ Kb2 2.Bg8 a3 3.Bxh7 ł (-0.70) Depth: 3 00:00:00 1.Bc4+ Kb2 2.Bg8 a3 3.Bxh7 ł (-0.70) Depth: 4 00:00:00 1.Bc4+ Kb2 2.Bf7 a3 3.Bxg6 a2 4.Bxh7 a1Q -+ (-2.23) Depth: 5 00:00:00 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 a2 3.Bxh7 a1Q 4.g6 -+ (-2.09) Depth: 5 00:00:00 1.Ba6 Kb2 2.Bc4 b3 3.Bg8 -+ (-2.07) Depth: 5 00:00:00 1.Ba6 Kb2 2.Bb7 b3 3.Be4 a3 4.Bxg6 -+ (-2.53) Depth: 6 00:00:00 4kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 Kb2 3.Bxh7 a2 4.Kc4 a1Q 5.Kxb4 µ (-0.75) Depth: 6 00:00:00 5kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 Kb2 3.Bxh7 a2 4.Kc4 a1Q 5.Kxb4 µ (-0.75) Depth: 7 00:00:00 10kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 8 00:00:00 19kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 9 00:00:00 45kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 10 00:00:00 72kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 11 00:00:00 132kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 12 00:00:01 244kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 13 00:00:02 459kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 14 00:00:04 917kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 15 00:00:09 1887kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 16 00:00:19 4010kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8Q a1Q 5.Qxa1 = (0.00) Depth: 17 00:00:43 8912kN 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8B Ka3 5.Kc2 b3+ 6.Kc1 Ka4 7.Kb2 Kb4 8.Bg7 Kc4 9.Ka3 Kd5 10.Kxb3 Ke4 11.Kxa2 Kf5 +- (3.11) Depth: 18 00:03:17 37142kN (Szalai, MyTown 28.09.2003) CM 9000: Time Depth Score Positions Moves 0:01 8/12 0.00 244835 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 0:02 9/13 0.00 459719 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 0:04 10/14 0.00 917335 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 0:09 11/15 0.00 1887372 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 0:20 12/16 0.00 4010653 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 0:45 13/17 0.00 8912233 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=Q a1=Q 5.Qxa1 3:25 14/18 3.11 37142500 1.Be8 a3 2.Bxg6 hxg6 3.h7 a2 4.h8=B Ka3 5.Kc2 b3+ 6.Kc1 Ka4 7.Kb2 Kb4 8.Bg7 Kc4 9.Ka3 Kd5 10.Kxb3 Ke4 11.Kxa2 Kf5
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