Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:17:16 10/19/03
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On October 18, 2003 at 18:58:26, Ed Schröder wrote: >On October 18, 2003 at 02:54:37, Thoralf Karlsson wrote: > >Great job Thoralf, as usual. > >Just one wish, get CM9000 tested, without this top program your list is >deflated. And make sure to test it with reasonable custom personality settings. For example, to have an easy compromise I'd recommend Sel.=12 and king safety 150/150. These are the most important changes (and larger hash size, i.e. 32 MB). I guess this would achieve 80%...90% of the improvement effects of various custom settings, for King 3.23. On some rating lists, only selectivity and hash are adjusted. I think The King is an exception from the usual (and useful!) SSDF rule, only to test defaults or programmer-recommended values (but J.d.Koning has written he thinks Sel. 12 is good, anyway). It's obvious - reality in computerchess is, that The King just isn't used with default setting values among the fans and experts. So you would test for an audience that doesn't exist. (Average non-expert customers may use the defaults, but neither read nor need SSDF ratings.) Maybe SSDF can consider to buy a few Chessmasters in a shop? :-)) The Fritz GUI can provide the Auto 232 function. The Wb2Uci adaption to use King in Fritz is "custom", IOW not supplied by the manufacturers, but obviously most people use it without problems. When you'll test The King in the Fritz GUI, I think it would be sufficient to use a solid "neutral" opening book generated from a good collection of IM/GM games, not too big move depth. In no case use a converted OBK book, because - as tests have shown (IIRC also reported here) - the conversion doesn't work for the latest CM books. It produces "something" though, but which is totally broken. You've probably read about it here. Basically it's just that a major engine of the top class is missing in the SSDF list, that's why people are demanding to include it... I guess the ranking itself wouldn't be too surprising. I don't doubt that King 3.23 is among the Top-5 (with 3rd rank within reach occasionally, maybe not constantly). But who knows. I think there is no kind of law, that programmers or publishers have to give permission to include a program in a test or have control the testing conditions(especially not when the organisation is independent!). Regards, Mike Scheidl
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