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Subject: Re: Thank you very much, Graham!

Author: Juan Pablo Naar C.

Date: 17:27:34 07/21/05

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On July 21, 2005 at 18:34:24, Graham Banks wrote:

>On July 21, 2005 at 18:20:19, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2005 at 16:10:42, Graham Banks wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Thanks for your information Graham, but I haven't received your mail about how
>>to use CM10th book under Fritz. Are you gonna email me the way or do you have
>>the book in the .ctg format?
>
>
>Hi Juan,
>
>I tried emailing it to you, but I got a delivery failed message. Is your email
>address the same as in your profile?
>
>Graham.

Yes Graham, my mail is exactly the one in my profile. I don't know what the
problem could be, maybe an internet/hotmail error? Who knows. But, can you
please try again?

Thanks in Advance



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