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Subject: Re: september tournament after 8 rounds

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 00:20:46 09/05/05

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On September 04, 2005 at 19:08:40, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>Thanks for the settings Thorsten,
>
>I printed them out from the post on your forum but the listing was eleven pages
>long!

strange.


>Where do you find the time to play all your tournaments?


you talk about the dedicated chess computer tournaments ?


>Don't you ever get
>phonecalls on your Sumo Nokia with Chess Genius program, just when it is about
>to mate the Mephisto Mondial again?


i do not use my telephone for phone calls :-))

i bought it for using genius :-)



>-"Hello, here is Frans Morsch calling, why
>are you playing this old Mephisto program of mine? This is no good, you must try
>my new "Fritz 4 phone" and I will wipe the floor with Richard Lang's Genius
>again!"-

:-))

i get a headache from mobiles. therefore i do not use them often.
only when playing chess with them.

here in germany we take great care of electro-smog.
i do e.g. not use wireless telephones.




>I have more Pro Deo settings to share, not so long:

thank you. i will try it out.

>My radical new alchemy experiment with Pro Deo Vulcan settings, also has many
>blocked extensions, is not yet suited for games I think, more tuning may help
>hopefully in endgames, but it did find a nice variation in Aufgabe 51 from
>Michael Gurevich, and holds it from ply 15 on! It's a pretty difficult position
>for computers; http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/132129.htm


i see.

>[Event "FRA-chT 9900"]
>[Site "France"]
>[Date "2000.04.29"]
>[Round "9.4"]
>[White "Efimov, Igor"]
>[Black "Nataf, Igor Alexandre"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>[ECO "A45"]
>[WhiteElo "2658"]
>[BlackElo "2443"]
>[PlyCount "80"]
>[EventDate "1999.02.04"]
>[Source "ChessBase"]
>[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]
>
>1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c5 3. Bxf6 gxf6 4. e3 Qb6 5. b3 d5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 e5 8. dxe5
>fxe5 9. Qxd5 Be6 10. Qd1 c4 11. Nd2 O-O-O 12. Qc2 Qa5 13. Rc1 Ba3 14. b4 Bxb4
>15. Ng3 Ba3 16. Rb1 Rxd2 17. Qxd2 Rd8 18. Qc2 Nb4 19. Rxb4 Bxb4 20. Ne4 Be7 21.
>Be2 Qd5 22. O-O f5 23. Ng3 Qd2 24. Qb1 Ba3 25. Qb5 Qxc3 26. Rb1 Rd7 27. Qa4 Bc5
>28. h3 a6 29. Nh5 Qa3 30. Qc2 c3 31. Rc1 Bb4 32. Nf6 Rd8 33. g4 Qxa2 34. Qxa2
>Bxa2 35. gxf5 Bb3 36. Ng4 c2 37. Kg2 Ba3 38. Bc4 Ba4 39. Rxc2 Bxc2 40. f6 Bd6
>0-1
>
>[D]2kr3r/pp3p1p/2n1b3/q3p3/2p5/b1P1P1N1/P1QN1PPP/1R2KB1R b K - 3 1
>
>Pro Deo 1.1 Vulcan {9k15h} after 16.Rb1
>
>00:00:00.3	-0,39	3	3144		Qc5 Nge4 Qd5 Bxc4
>00:00:00.3	-0,12	3	4809		Ne7 Bxc4 Nd5
>00:00:00.3	-0,12	3	8146		b5
>00:00:00.3	0,86	3	8638		b5 Be2 Rhg8
>00:00:00.3	0,61	4	11470		b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O
>00:00:00.4	0,84	5	42987		b5 Rd1 Rhg8 Nde4 Ne7
>00:00:00.4	0,66	6	92221		b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O f5 Rfd1
>00:00:00.6	0,82	7	247495		b5 Be2 Rhg8 O-O Ne7 Rfd1 f5
>00:00:00.8	0,69	8	494890		b5 Be2 Rhg8 O-O f5 Rfd1 e4
>00:00:01.4	0,54	9	999625		b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O Rhg8 Rfd1 f5 Nf3 Bd6
>00:00:03.0	0,57	10	2595208	b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O Nd5 Bxc4 bxc4 Nxc4 Qa6 Nxe5 Nb6
>00:00:06.0	0,57	11	5775965	b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O Nd5 Bxc4 bxc4 Nxc4 Qa6 Qb3 Nb6 Qxa3
>Bxc4 Qc5+ Kb8
>00:00:21.6	0,67	12	22890932	b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O Nd5 Bxc4 bxc4 Nxc4 Qa6 Qb3 Nb6 Qxa3
>Bxc4 Qc5+ Kb7 Rfe1 Qxa2
>00:00:39.5	0,47	13	43125906	b5 Be2 Ne7 O-O Nd5 Bxc4 bxc4 Nxc4 Qa6 Nxa3 Qxa3 Qe4
>Qd6 c4 Nb6
>00:01:10.0	0,47	13	79415697	Rxd2
>00:01:13.0	0,82	13	82667867	Rxd2 Qxd2 Rd8 Qc2 Nb4 Rxb4 Bxb4 cxb4 Qxb4+ Ke2 Kb8
>Ne4
>00:01:32.0	1,17	14	105621206	Rxd2 Qxd2 Rd8 Qc2 Nb4 cxb4 Bxb4+ Rxb4 Qxb4+ Ke2 c3
>a3
>00:02:04.3	1,06	15	145934809	Rxd2 Qxd2 Rd8 Qc2 Nb4 Rxb4 Bxb4 Ne4 Be7
>00:04:47.5	0,99	16	359292184	Rxd2 Qxd2 Rd8 Qc2 Nb4 Rxb4 Bxb4 Ne4 Be7
>00:15:35.8	0,99	17	1176073417	Rxd2 Qxd2 Rd8 Qc2 Nb4 Rxb4 Bxb4 Ne4 Be7 Nd2
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>[Personality = Vulcan {9k15h}]       * Pro Deo 1.1 (February 2005)
>[Pawn Value = 90]
>[Knight Value = 90]
>[Bishop Value = 90]
>[Rook Value = 90]
>[Queen Value = 90]
>[My Queen = 91]
>[King Safety = 170]
>[Mobility = 125]
>[Pawn Structure = 100]
>[Passed Pawns = 110]
>[Pins = 100]
>[Bishop Pair = 100]
>[Chess Knowledge = 100]
>[Attractiveness = 110]
>[Attacking = 110]
>[Strength of Play = 100]
>[Draw Contempt Factor = 0.00]
>[Selective Search = 100]
>[Search Technique = NULLMOVE]
>
>[Engine Master = off]           off
>[Engine Learner = off]          off|on
>[Book Learner = off]     off|passive|moderate|strong|aggressive
>[Position Learner = off]         off|on
>[Extended Book Learner = off]   off|read|write|read&write
>*
>[Pruning = MISC_25]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_37]             * Hash Table extension (-18%) DEFAULT
>[M37_Val = 3.00]                * Default unknown
>[Pruning = MISC_40]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_52]             *
>[QS Margin = 10.00]             * Default is 3.00
>[Fail High Margin = 10.00]      * Default is 9.00
>[Checks Depth = 4]              * Limit QS checks to 4 ply, default is 2
>[Pruning = MISC_66]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_69]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_78]             *
>*
>[Center Control = 35]           *
>[Bishop Mobility = 25]          *
>[Right to Move = 80]            *
>[Strong Squares = 130]          *
>*
>[Pruning = MISC_02]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_03]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_39]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_08]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_12]             *
>[Pruning = MISC_76]             * Rook 7th rank (new style)
>[Rook 7th Rank (low) = 60]	*
>[Rook 7th Rank (high) = 60]	*
>[Pruning ? MISC_48]             * No FHR pruning in QS
>[Pruning = MISC_17]             * Skip first extension (+30-35%)
>[Pruning = MISC_10]             * NULLMOVE Block first extension
>[Pruning = MISC_22]		* Sort root moves on nodes
>[Pruning ? MISC_30] 		* Extend singular checks
>[Pruning ? MISC_36]             * Extend double attacks (W6) at the leafs
>[Pruning ? MISC_28]             * (2,2,1,1)      >> in test <<
>[Pruning = MISC_13]             * Extra bonus Bishop Pair
>[Pruning = MISC_27]             * Eval double pawns (new style)
>[Futility = 100]                * Futility Pruning.
>[Blitz Time Control = 120]      * use more time at blitz levels
>*
>[Pawn Pressure midg = 150]      * weight pawn pressure middlegame
>[Pawn Pressure end0 = 130]      * weight pawn pressure early endgame
>[Pawn Pressure end1 = 120]      * weight pawn pressure endgame
>[Pawn Pressure end2 = 110]      * weight pawn pressure simple endgame
>*
>[Knight Mobility = 88]          * 88
>[Double Pawns = 110]            * 112
>[Pawn Formation = 110]          * 108
>[Weak Pawns = 110]              * 112
>[Minimum Knight Mobility = 100] * 100
>[Minimum Bishop Mobility = 100] * 100
>[Passed Pawn King Tropism = 100]    * king tropism to own passed pawns
>[Progressive Isolated Pawns = 100]  * weight isolated pawns (new style)
>*
>*
>[ANTI-GM = OFF]
>[EVALUATION = SMART]
>[Extensions (remaining)= 3]
>[Extensions (checks)= normal]   * low|moderate|normal|strong|all
>[Extensions (captures)= 0]
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Eelco
>
>P.S. I don't really understand why Ed wrote in the settings list that he found
>no good effect for
>[Pruning = MISC_22] * Sort root moves on nodes
>I have kept it in all my settings, nothing spectacular but seemed to help a
>little.


Thank you for you style. i will take a look into it. maybe i can use things from
it :-))

i will also take a look on misc_22

till later...



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