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Subject: Re: Again on Pro Deo...a doubt on settings and CP 5.3

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 03:08:02 09/03/04

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On September 02, 2004 at 17:32:26, Francesco Piantedosi wrote:

>Hi all,
>I use Pro Deo under Chess Partner 5.3. I have followed suggestion of Ed(I have
>copyed his settings in rebel.eng file) to optimize engine's
>performance(http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?385519) but, under
>"Extra"->"Engine Properties" I see Anti-GM setted to "Strong". I have correct
>setting and now it's setted to "OFF"...but what is the right way?
>
>Does "Extra" menu overload engine parameters in rebel.eng file? Or .eng file
>settings are "always executed"?
>
>Is correct copy Ed file in rebel.eng to activate it? Obviously rebel is my
>current active personality.
>
>Regards
>Francesco Piantedosi

Here is what happend:

When prodeo start it set the hashtable to selected size and load the engine's
default (no personality and antigm=off).

Then ChessPartner send commands found in the prodeo.cpvar file. The content of
this file is what you see under the extra/engine property menu.
This 'default' file is user controlled eg. each time you select extra/save
settings you also overwrite this .cpvar file for the current engine.

When I look at the .cpvar file that was bundled with prodeo it only load the
personality rebel.eng, all others are set to the defaults for the engine
(antigm=off).

Odd Gunnar
As I can see the only difference from prodeo's default is





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