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Subject: Re: The King mystery solved

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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