Author: James T. Walker
Date: 20:18:39 01/10/05
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On January 10, 2005 at 22:05:12, Alastair Allan wrote: >Can anyone advise on how to weaken CSTAL2? I bought the orginal several years >ago from the originator in Oxford and applied both patches when they became >available. I set the program's strength at 1 (50 is apparently the strongest >setting). But the program still beats me with ease. My rating is probably around >1100. As an experiment I had Tal (set at strength 1) play in friend mode agains >Fritz 8 (no handicap) and Fritz lost in about 100 moves. Is the weaken setting >broken, I wonder, or do I have to raise my gameplay hugely, or what? Any help >would be much appreciated. I'm afraid it's hard to weaken CSTal2 any more than the "1" setting. I tried an experiment on ICC several years ago with my computer account running CSTal2 on a K6-3/450Mhz at level 1 and 2. It only searched a few hundred nodes/second but carried a blitz rating of over 2000. I don't believe it was really that strong but many people seemed intimidated by playing the computer. The only other thing you can do is remove the tablebases. Jim
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