Author: Harald Faber
Date: 08:18:08 01/28/99
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On January 28, 1999 at 10:16:57, Torstein Hall wrote: >>You hit it in a nutshell. That's exactly why I have shied away from programs >>like F5, J5, Rebel 10, etc. How do you know what settings to use for what >>situations? It's interesting that these programs often find the solutions >>"after the fact". In other words, someone or some other program finds the >>solution, then the response is "But if you set AAA to BBB, and CCC to DDD, and >>turn off anti-this, but activate anti-that, then reduce the hash size...." Wow! >>I just fire up MCP and run with it. It may not always come up with the >>strongest solution, but at least I don't have to guess what it's strongest setup >>mode is. In my opinion, there's such a thing as "too many bells and whistles" >>which can sometimes give self defeating results. I wouldn't want any chess >>program where I would constantly be wondering, "Is the setup I'm using giving me >>the best results?" Better to have less with faith, than more without. > >In my view its exactly opposite. If you do not finnd it with MCP you do not find >it, and what good is that doing for you? ..and by the way, I would just love a >option to turn on underpromotion in Junior 5! > >Torstein I think it is meant that it is best to use a program with steady parameters. It is not good to have different settings for different position types because in a game you can't also change between the settings...one for all, that is the message. It reminds me of CSTalBLACK and CSTalWHITE, in fact it is one program but splitted into 2. Coming next is CST consisting of CSTwhite_e4, CSTwhite_d4 and CSTblack_e4, CSTblack_d4 and so on. Where does it lead us? Luckily this behaviour was given up. But it rests that e.g. Rebel's strongest settings don't find moves Rebel with not strongest settings, e.g. combination=off, does find, depending on the positions? Next step is finding best moves only with comb=chance and beep=on. :-) Also the King has some settings where he crushes all testsuites demanding sacs but he PLAYS ugly.
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