Author: Martin Slowik
Date: 06:46:44 03/31/05
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On March 31, 2005 at 08:23:14, F. Huber wrote: >On March 31, 2005 at 08:08:32, Martin Slowik wrote: > >Hi Martin, > >>I am well known for doing things without thinking, just ask my chess >>computers... > >LOL - that might be true for most of us, at least sometimes ... ;-) > >>How do I know in advance which mode to use. I haven't found anything in the >>readme (I was not looking into the source files...). 'Automatic' seemed a >>plausible mode, since my R30 found the mate also 'automatically'. :) > >Well, as a general rule I would say: >For shorter mates (up to about #10) _always_ try ´Normal´-mode first! >Only if you see that it would really take too much time in this ´brute force´ >mode (or if you have a much deeper mate problem), then I would use the >´Automatic´ (or even better the ´AutoTurbo´) mode - but in this case it´s >very important to know at least the mate depth and set this value correctly >(in ´SearchDepth´), otherwise you could get _any_ possible higher mate instead >of the shortest one (and of course it could also take some time). > >>P.S. I'm using the Shredder(ChessBase) via the UCI-interface. > >Ok, of course ChestUCI is working in this GUI (don´t forget to open the extra >´Engine output window´ to see all infos from ChestUCI!), but Arena-GUI or >ShredderClassic-GUI are really _much_ better for ChestUCI - >so if you have one of them, you should give it a try ... > >Regards, >Franz. Thank you, Franz. I have both and will give them a try. (Actually I'm using the DGT board together with the Shredder Classic interface, so I will rather use that one). Best, Martin
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