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Subject: Re: CM6K Cummings Tournament Result (In Progress)

Author: Dan Kiski

Date: 06:01:59 12/11/98

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On December 11, 1998 at 07:43:08, Harald Faber wrote:

>On December 11, 1998 at 06:40:24, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>>>I checked and I have on my CM-Faber personality in my tournament cc=100, which
>>>>makes it the same as the CM6555 personality, which is currently doing so well,
>>>>and the other one called CM-Faber is second last and in the update in my
>>>>tournament with a few more games played which I have not posted is now last.
>>>
>>>Ah, now I see. You run the same prog twice and get different results. :-))))
>>>In the Nunn-Test it should not happen, if you have no setup positions for the
>>>games then these results are influenced by the openings.
>>
>>The only difference between the Cm6555 setting and the ones of the CM-Faber one
>>is that CM6555 uses the CM6000 opening book and the CM-faber one uses the Mentor
>>book. Apart from that they are the same in every way.


Therefore the cm6000 book has so far performed better than the mentor.obk since
that is the only difference between the two settings. That is interesting since
mentor.obk is deeper than cm6000.obk, i guess cm6000.obk is mostly mainlines
while mentor.obk plays other not so viable lines?.

>
>So in the Nunn test yo should get almost the same results or do you play the
>Nunn positions still with book use? AFAIK that is not the aim of that test.



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