Author: Mike S.
Date: 23:49:37 10/31/03
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On October 31, 2003 at 22:35:22, Chessfun wrote:
>On October 31, 2003 at 21:08:32, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On October 31, 2003 at 20:21:30, Chessfun wrote:
>>
>>>(...)
>"(...) So, if you want a possible translations
>within the GUI's, go always from the Chessmaster-Setting to Malin and not the
>other way around :-)"
Yes; that last remark is the key sentence regarding this. IOW, the proper way to
design alternative settings is, create the settings in the CM8000/9000 GUI
first. For the conversion, usually engine log files are used to see, which
values are really sent to the engine by the CM GUI. These values are written in
the Wb2Uci.eng then.
Too bad that Wb2Uci doesn't work for you... I had some difficulties too,
expecially in *Win98* which I use still on the other computer. I suspect there
may be something wrong with King's hash size in this OS using Wb2Uci (not in
WinME). But I didn't test that yet (it's on my todo list... :-)).
Brian Kostick and others of the CCC people had done some efforts to create a
standard format for the Wb2Uci King settings in Fritz, using the load/save
function of the F3 dialogue. Unfortunately this didn't raise much interest as it
seems. But I use it. My Fritz .param file for CM9_SKR looks like this:
[TheKing323]
My Pawn (myp)=100
My Knight (myn)=100
My Bishop (myb)=100
My Rook (myr)=100
My Queen (myq)=101
My Control of Center (mycc)=105
My Mobility (mymob)=110
My King Safety (myks)=155
My Passed Pawns (mypp)=100
My Pawns Weakness (mypw)=100
Contempt for Draw (cfd)=0
Strength of Play (sop)=100
Attacker/Defender (avd)=-2
Randomness (rnd)=0
Opposing Pawn (opp)=100
Opposing Knight (opn)=100
Opposing Bishop (opb)=100
Opposing Rook (opr)=100
Opposing Queen (opq)=100
Opposing Control of Center (opcc)=105
Opposing Mobility (opmob)=110
Opposing King Safety (opks)=155
Opposing Passed Pawns (oppp)=100
Opposing Pawns Weakness (oppw)=100
Selective Search (sel)=12
Max Search Depth (md)=99
Logfile=1
The CM GUI itself is a good testing environment for WinBoard-Eniges IMO, because
it's possible to assign a CM book to engines which have none (i.e. play a match
or tournament where all use CM9000.obk). With King there is a top engine
available to test against, Ruffian 1.0.1 etc. too, for WB. engine testing and
comparison. Runs great, with the exception that there's no reversed color option
for the opening variants used. I prefer that over Wb2Uci in general (or simply
use WinBoard even), although the variety of opponents is limited then and some
of the strongest unavailable. I guess the new Win-Rebel 12 should also run in
CM8000/9000 (?), being a WB. engine. There were no reports so far about that
AFAIK.
I use "CM9K_modified", this is simply 32 MB hash, Sel.=12 and king safety
settings 150/150. Rest default. This allows easy documentation :-)) but at the
same time, I believe that I get ~90% of the improvement potential by that. My
earlier experiments with CM_Brain were not very successfull. Often, only larger
hash and Sel. 12 is used in ratings lists, but as you know most strong settings
have the increased king safety values in common, which I consider to be
important.
An example:
Drei_Chessmeister_9K.CMT 2003
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 CM9_8777 * 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 5.0/7 16.50
2 Delfi 4.1 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 5.0/7 13.75
3 CM9K_modified 1 ½ * 0 0 1 1 1 4.5/7
4 CM9 SKR 0 ½ 1 * 1 0 ½ 1 4.0/7
5 Ruffian 1.0.1 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 0 3.0/7 9.50
6 Crafty 18.15 0 0 0 1 0 * 1 1 3.0/7 7.50
7 WBNimzo 2000b 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 * ½ 2.0/7
8 Yace Paderborn 0 0 0 0 1 0 ½ * 1.5/7
40/20:00 on P3/700, own books (Crafty with custom book), but here CM9K_mod. used
128 MB hash IIRC, although this probably made not much difference.
Btw. unlike previous Chessmaster versions, there was no Chessmaster 9000 sold in
the normal computer & electronics shops in germany and german speaking
countries, for the first time! I have my own theory what the reason for this may
have been :-))
Let's wait and see.
Regards,
Mike
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