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Subject: Re: Is chessmaster6000 with selective search=10 a better solver?

Author: Kai Lübke

Date: 05:14:47 12/17/98

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On December 16, 1998 at 12:11:11, James Robertson wrote:

>I heard somewhere that someone found a way to increase selective search beyond
>10, with even better results.


It is actually quite easy:
All you need is a hex editor (I use the one in Norton Commander for DOS) to open
the respective .cmx personality file and change the "06" or "0A"
for the selective search depth to a greater number.

Maybe it takes a little guessing if there is more than one such value.

If you want to find out, just save a personality "CM6000SS10" which is equal to
the default CM6000 except that selective search is set to 10.
Now compare the two personalities for the one byte that is different (OK, maybe
there are a few more because of the name change? Dunno if that is stored inside
the file, too.)

This thing was not my idea (sorry I forgot who to give credit to), but I
successfully tried it myself with CM5500.

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Shep






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