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Subject: Re: Tournament to discover optimal lightning/bullet settings for CM9K

Author: Axel Schumacher

Date: 23:13:10 02/19/04

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On February 20, 2004 at 02:04:53, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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


Hi Kurt,
do you make the BUC-Blitz settings public soon, or did you already (and I missed
that)?

Cheers
Axel



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