Author: m.d.hurd
Date: 10:22:44 10/02/03
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On October 02, 2003 at 03:27:29, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On October 02, 2003 at 03:11:44, m.d.hurd wrote: > >>On September 28, 2003 at 10:15:55, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >> >>>On September 27, 2003 at 21:15:03, Johan de Koning wrote: >>> >>>>On September 26, 2003 at 12:44:42, John Merlino wrote: >>>>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 >>Can you explain which file you modifed. I have the following line in my >>WB2uci.eng : >> >>Selective Search (sel)=cm_parm sel=%i|spin|9|0|16 >> >>What else do I need to amend ? >> >> >>Regards >> >>Mike > >The default for the king is 6 and not 9 as you have in your settings. >If you want to use 9 as default you have to add it to InitString too, but you >could also change your string to: > >Selective Search (sel)=cm_parm sel=%i|spin|6|0|16 > >And then create a personality in Fritz or whatever with this setting to 9, then >it will be sent to the engine at startup. > >To change the default to 9 in the initstring: > >InitString = (your previous string)\ncm_parm sel=9 > >Use only one of the above methods. > >Odd Gunnar Thanks for that. Regards Mike
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