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Subject: Re: Thank you very much, Graham!

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 13:10:42 07/20/05

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On July 20, 2005 at 15:55:14, Graham Banks wrote:

>On July 20, 2005 at 13:03:55, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2005 at 04:24:57, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>On July 20, 2005 at 01:33:51, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>What does the mobility setting in CM do? What affects it? What happens if it is
>>>>slow, high? I ask the same question about the other opposing settings.
>>>
>>>Control of centre = how much importance CM places on keeping control of the
>>>centre or preventing the opponent from doing the same. CM10th is very good at
>>>flank play, but neglects the centre a little at times.
>>>
>>>Mobility = activity and spatial control. CM is already quite active, but needs
>>>to restrict the opponent a little more than it does.
>>>
>>>King safety = maintaining pieces not too far away from being available to defend
>>>its own king or concentrating play more strongly on the opposing king. CM10th is
>>>much better at both than CM9000 was.
>>>
>>>Passed pawns = importance attached at creating and pushing its own passed pawns
>>>or preventing the opponent from doing the same. A real area of weakness for
>>>CM10th is in underestimating the value of oposing passed pawns and not always
>>>having sufficient protection for its own.
>>>
>>>Pawn weaknesses = the importance placed on maintaining pawn chains/islands and
>>>avoiding doubled/islolated pawns. CM10th is quite good in this area. If you bump
>>>the value of this setting up too much, you could get closed/semi-closed
>>>positions which don't suit computers.
>>>
>>>Just my thoughts,
>>>
>>>Regards, Graham.
>>Thanks for the information, but i'm not clear about what the Opposing XXX do.
>>Does Opposing XXX prevents the opponent to XXX in all settings? Also, in the
>>Fritz GUI, is there any way to use the CMx own book there?
>>Thanks in Advance
>
>
>The opposing value (opp=opponent) is the importance placed on taking those
>particular areas of the opponents play into consideration.
>The CM10th book can be used under Fritz. I'll email it to you.
>
>Graham.


I should really expand on my statement.

oppcc=restricting opponents control of centre
oppmob=restricting opponents mobility
oppks=aggressiveness towards opponents king
opppp=importance placed on prevention of opponents passed pawns or restricting
their movement.
opppw=importance placed on creating pawn weaknesses in the opponents position.

Graham.



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