Author: Luis Smith
Date: 05:53:26 12/08/03
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On December 08, 2003 at 02:59:27, Matt Thomas wrote: >On December 07, 2003 at 06:53:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On December 07, 2003 at 06:25:58, Matt Thomas wrote: >> >>>When I upgraded from ChessMaster 8000 to 9000 I noticed that I could not use my >>>CM8k custom personalities that I created in CM9k. Rather than suffer the >>>dissapointment I decided to create a program that would convert them over to the >>>new CM9k format. I have succeeded in creating a program that will do this and >>>it will also copy over any of the opening books that do not already exist in the >>>CM9k opening book directory. I created it in VB6 and tested it on Win98se and >>>XP and it works. The program with help file and one support file is about 450kb >>>zipped. If anyone has an interest in it or can think of a place where I could >>>upload it let me know please, thanks. BTW its free to a good home. -matt >> >> That's fine. But in principle it does not make much sense >> to use the CM8k-settings for CM9-GUI as the internal default >> params of the new engine are no longer identical. Or in other >> words: a strong CM8-setting may be nothing worth under CM9k. >> Kurt > >All the original settings from CM8k are found in CM9k except for 5 settings that >track the opponent's center, mobility, king safety, pawn position, and pawn >weakness; and a use endgame tb setting. These new settings are matched to the >AI settings for the imported players. Selective search is deeper in CM9k. The >range of each of the matching settings are identical. The custom opponents from >CM8k should play with the same style in CM9k. One of the reasons for creating a >custom player is to play against a different style. I have a lot of custom >players in CM8k and wanted to be able to bring them into CM9k more easily. I >made this mostly for my own need, but thought it would be nice if someone else >wanted to use it. Feel free to not want to use it though... -matt Hi Matt, While all of this is true, perhaps Johan changed some of the internal weights which will affect play. Although certainly an interesting tool, I don't think many people would have a use for it.
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