Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 23:04:53 02/19/04
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On February 19, 2004 at 23:34:37, Luis Smith wrote:
>On February 19, 2004 at 21:13:22, Jason Kent wrote:
>
>>Go here for the data, so far I haven't learned much. --> www.cacsi.com/chess
>>
>>Im planning on playing 1 or 2 of my best settings vs 5 or so on
>>http://www.grailmaster.com/misc/chess/comp/cm.html
>>
>>If you want me to include any in particular, let me know.
>>
>>I want to try skr, grailmaster 7+8, mapi, CM9000 M2v.5 at least. CM9000 "J"
>>looks interesting because its selective search is only 8.
>
>If you want to see which CM personality is the best, playing a huge RR
>tournament with nothing but CM settings isn't going to prove a thing. You can
>however download 10 - 20 free engines, plug them all into Winboard or Arena and
>play each CM personality the same amount of times against each engine and
>determine from that the results. Since its lightning it shouldn't be too hard
>to get a good number of games.
>
>Also remember whats more important (IMO) is playing aginst more opponents rather
>than playing more games. It gets a better overall picture of the engines
>playing strength.
Agreed: this just matches with my experience. It's useless to
have the best CM9-setting in tournaments between CM9-settings
as (again my experience) this so called best setting is nothing
worth when playing other opponents.
Kurt
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