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Subject: No problem. Glad to help. :-)

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 20:57:27 07/21/05

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On July 21, 2005 at 21:14:53, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:

>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!


Glad to hear you've got it working.

Graham.



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