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Subject: Re: CM8 to CM9 custom personality converter

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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