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Subject: Re: Why don't some people design their CM settings within the CM GUI???

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 05:50:34 06/04/04

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On June 04, 2004 at 08:40:18, Jason Kent wrote:

>On June 04, 2004 at 08:22:37, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2004 at 07:50:12, Mike S. wrote:
>>
>>>On June 04, 2004 at 01:33:44, Richard Sutherland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 03, 2004 at 22:55:35, Mike S. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Why don't some people design their CM settings within the CM GUI???
>>>>
>>>>Could it be, perhaps, because it's easier to play the CM9K engine against other
>>>>engines, automatically, using other GUI's?
>>>
>>>No. I simply mean, where you set the settings' values:
>>>
>>>It has turned out that often, values are used which cannot be achieved by using
>>>the CM GUI, as originally intended, to create the settings. These are not really
>>>compatible with CM's own GUI then!
>>>
>>>(If you don't understand why, don't ask me why :-) because if you have CM, you
>>>should understand the reason.)
>>>
>>>This is not proper use of chess software! I consider such settings not as being
>>>serious.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>M.Scheidl
>>
>>
>>     Hi Michael
>>     Just right: values that are not based on an original and
>>     possible CM9-GUI-setting are nothing worth and not serious,
>>     in any case of no help for the programmer as nobody knows
>>     why the engine plays well/worse. And a serious tester should
>>     in principle know what he is doing. Just my opinion.
>>     Kurt
>
>Kurt and Michael,
>
>If johan wanted to to use my settings (or any text based settings) in the GUI,
>all johan would have to do is fix the GUI so it accepts more precise numbers.
>If the engine accepts the precision, why can't the GUI?  I'd be surprised if
>that isn't fixed for the 10th edition.
>
>I do think I could convert the text settings to a GUI setting if I knew exactly
>what the conversion rate is.  I have some settings in my GUI AND in text based
>format.  Maybe I can figure it out from that.  If any of you are experienced
>converting the settings I'd appreciate any help.


     Hi Jason
     Do we not forget one thing: CM9 is basically intended to
     run under its own GUI. Fortunately, it's also possible to
     use the engine under other GUI's. ChessBase native engines
     like Fritz and Shredder can't do this. Therefore a setting
     should always be created under CM9-GUI and then it's easy
     to convert the (then correct) parameters for use in other
     GUI's. It's for these reasons I think wrong to adapt the
     other way.
     Kurt



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