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Subject: Re: Shredder 9 vs CMX

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 23:50:20 07/12/05

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On July 13, 2005 at 01:42:48, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On July 12, 2005 at 16:56:57, Graham Banks wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2005 at 16:33:52, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>
>>>      Hi Jason
>>>      The longer you play the more will the score of
>>>      all CM10k settings drop (under 50 %). I am quite
>>>      sure that no setting of The King 3.33 will have
>>>      a chance to win a match over 50 games against
>>>      Shredder 9.
>>>      Kurt
>>
>>
>>I agree, but I really appreciate what Jason is doing.
>>
>>Two other things to take into account are:
>>
>>-most CM9000 or CM10th settings that have a high control of centre value will do
>>quite well against Shredder
>>-the settings that do best against Shredder are not necessarily the best
>>settings overall because they perform differently against other programs.
>
>      Hi Graham
>      That's indeed a great (the greatest) problem with CM-settings
>      and the reason why I have stopped creating own settings for
>      CM10k. My feeling is that it's much more difficult to find a
>      good overall setting for CM10k than with CM9k.
>      Kurt
>>
This is why Ray's testing should be useful. He's testing a variety of CM10th
settings against other top programs. 280 games each (40 game matches at 40 moves
in 40 mins repeating against Shredder 9, Fritz 8 Bilbao, Junior 9, Hiarcs 9,
Ruffian 2.1.0, Gandalf 6.0, Aristarch 4.50.
Graham.


>>However Jason has had good success coming up with some decent CM9000 and CM10th
>>settings using his method of testing against the best (Shredder), so I'm not
>>pooh-poohing what he's doing at all. I find it quite interesting to follow.
>>
>>Graham.



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