Author: Graham Banks
Date: 11:45:10 08/08/04
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On August 08, 2004 at 14:21:02, David Dahlem wrote: >On August 07, 2004 at 19:37:30, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On August 07, 2004 at 19:10:02, David Dahlem wrote: >> >>>On August 07, 2004 at 18:07:09, Graham Banks wrote: >>> >>>>On August 07, 2004 at 17:30:39, David Dahlem wrote: >>>> >>>>>On August 07, 2004 at 17:01:38, Graham Banks wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Athlon XP2000 >>>>>>256mb hash each (or closest allowed by each program) >>>>>>3,4,5 piece tablebases >>>>>>All using Fritz Powerbook tournament book (maximum variety, minimum 5 games for >>>>>>a move to be played, no learning) >>>>>>40 moves in 40 minutes repeating. >>>>>>Ponder off >>>>>>Tournament run under Deep Fritz 8 GUI >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>STANDINGS (after 38 of 76 rounds) >>>>>> >>>>>>29.5 - CM9000 Judge II >>>>>>24.0 - List 512 >>>>>>23.5 - Gandalf 5.1 >>>>>>23.0 - SOS 4 >>>>>>22.5 - Thinker 4.6c >>>>>>22.5 - Rebel 12 >>>>>>22.0 - Pharaon 2.62 >>>>>>21.0 - CM 10th Edition (default) >>>>>>21.0 - Delfi 4.5 >>>>>>18.0 - Anaconda 1.6.2 >>>>>>18.0 - Deep Sjeng 1.6 >>>>>>18.0 - Tao 5.6 >>>>>>17.0 - Gothmog 1.0b10 >>>>>>16.5 - El Chinito 3.25 >>>>>>15.5 - Yace 0.99.87 >>>>>>15.0 - Crafty 19.15 >>>>>>14.5 - Little Goliath Revival >>>>>>13.5 - Fruit 1.5 >>>>>>13.5 - Slow Chess 2.93a >>>>>>11.5 - Comet B68 >>>>>> >>>>>>The top three programs apart from CM9000 Judge II and CM 10th Edition will play >>>>>>in the final stage of Super Tournament III at 40 moves in 120 minutes repeating. >>>>>> >>>>>>The games and crosstable should be up on Kurt’s website sometime soon. . >>>>>>http://www.utzingerk.com/banks/st_03_qual.htm >>>>>> >>>>>>I will now be replacing Rebel 12 with Pro Deo 1.0 and rerunning the first 38 >>>>>>games before proceeding into the second half of the tournament as I like to try >>>>>>and keep all current program versions in my tournament. >>>>>> >>>>>>Comments welcome. >>>>>>Graham. >>>>> >>>>>Hi Graham >>>>> >>>>>I really can't understand the poor showing of CM 10th Edition (default). For me, >>>>>it plays much stronger than this. :-) >>>>> >>>>>Regards >>>>>Dave >>>> >>>> >>>>Hi Dave, >>>>I don't think that CM 10th Edition will require as much tweaking as CM9000 in >>>>order to get stronger settings. I'd obviously put the selectivity up to 12 and >>>>I'd change the material values slightly. Apart from these, I can't see too many >>>>weak areas of play - maybe pawn weaknesses might need altering upwards? >>>>I'm very interested in the results you've had with CM 10th Edition (default) if >>>>you'd like to share them. >>>>Graham. >>> >>>Ok, here's a quick rundown according to EloStat. >>> >>> Program Elo + - Games Score Av.Op. Draws >>> >>> 1 Shredder 8 : 2486 92 87 43 64.0% 2386 34.9% >>> 2 Shredder 7 : 2409 199 106 15 53.3% 2386 53.3% >>> 3 TheKing 3.33 : 2384 55 74 79 44.9% 2419 39.2% >>> 4 TheKing 3.23 : 2365 118 191 16 46.9% 2386 43.8% >>> 5 Ruffian Leiden : 2005 382 218 5 10.0% 2386 20.0% >>> >>>Regards >>>Dave >> >> >>What time control? And did you alter selectivity or is everything apart from >>hash at default settings? >>Graham. > >Hi Graham > >What Selective Search setting are you using for TheKing 3.33? I don't really >have to set the parameters because of my setup. This is the line i use in my >wb2uci.eng file: > >InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm opk=xxxxxx\n > >This automatically uses the proper default settings. According to a post from >Johan de Koning, the default SS setting should be 10, and not 9 as in TheKing >3.23. Here is what he said about the changes (i saved this to a text file): > >TheKing 3.33 changes ... > >Slightly increased mobility weight. >Much increased R against K attack. >Some minor changes for more accurate positional play. >Selectivity scheme changed quite a bit >(now default SS=10, probably 12...14 will be strong in comp-competition) >Time usage more aggressive. >Version number 0.10 higher. :-) > >... Johan > >This info should be very useful for anyone creating custom personalities for >TheKing 3.33. :-) > >Regards >Dave Hi Dave, I'm using the default settings as my setup doesn't seem to list parameters or allow alterations either. Graham.
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