Author: Jason Kent
Date: 05:39:06 02/14/05
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On February 14, 2005 at 02:33:41, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On February 13, 2005 at 22:54:27, Graham Banks wrote: > >>On February 13, 2005 at 20:14:21, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On February 13, 2005 at 13:46:25, Graham Banks wrote: >>> >>>>THE GREAT CM9000 SHOWDOWN! >>>> >>>>Athlon XP1900+ >>>>128mb hash each >>>>3,4,5 men tablebases >>>>Ponder on >>>>No opening books >>>>34 rounds (2 cycles) at 40 moves in 80 minutes repeating >>>> >>>> >>>>Standings after Round 1 >>>> >>>>1.0 - Mapi >>>>1.0 - Minotaur >>>>1.0 - Pillen >>>>1.0 - Slayer 2b >>>>0.5 - Alliance >>>>0.5 - Assassin >>>>0.5 - Judge >>>>0.5 - Judge II >>>>0.5 - Justice >>>>0.5 - RIX >>>>0.5 - SKR >>>>0.5 - Slayer >>>>0.5 - Surak 8c >>>>0.5 - TO5 >>>>0.0 - Gladiator >>>>0.0 - Minotaur 2 >>>>0.0 - R1 >>>>0.0 - R2 >>> >>> >>>Can you also include the original CM9000 without personality, for strength >>>comparison. >>> >>>Jorge >> >> >>That was my plan originally, but somebody requested that I include Gladiator, so >>I left out Default to accommodate this request. >>Everybody knows that Default doesn't hack it with most or all of these settings, >>especially at longer time controls on faster machines. >>Default is included in the 40 moves in 2 hours tournament that I'm running on an >>old P3 450. Even here it's not faring so well! I'll post the result of that >>tournament soon (9 settings, 80 rounds). >> >>Graham. > > > This was a wrong decision in my opinion. It could be > that default plays comparatively stronger vs internal > CM-settings than vs other engines. I remember my earliest > tests with CM8k and different settings when default was > almost best and eventually stronger than most other settings. > Kurt > Kurt I agree with Graham. Default setting in a word, sucks. :) Why bother with it? It has already been tested quite a bit and proven to be inferior. Gladiator is the setting he replaced it with. This tournament needed to include Gladiator in my mind it is one of the tops.
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