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Subject: It works!

Author: Juan Pablo Naar C.

Date: 18:14:53 07/21/05

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On July 21, 2005 at 20:27:34, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>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

Hi Graham,

It works! So I guess that it was a hotmail error :-) But Phase 1 of 2 is taking
a long while in my Duron 1.0ghz.

Thanks for all!



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