Author: Ryan B.
Date: 17:49:07 10/06/05
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I was supprised to find that Beowulf is very strong on fast 64 bit hardware. I don't know if it is the speed or the 64 bit long that makes it so much better than it used to be for me but I am impressed. On October 06, 2005 at 17:36:22, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 06, 2005 at 17:28:04, Maurizio De Leo wrote: > >>Lately I have seen a lot of suggestion for "tweaking" engines. >>First there were the Chessmaster and Rebel personalities, then Dr. Wael Deeb and >>Sandro Necchi proposed a couple of Shredder settings, and lately even Uri >>suggested some option for increasing the strenght of Fruit. >> >>My question is: are these settings really useful as long as playing strenght is >>concerned ? I am sure they are useful for changing the play style or enhance the >>aggressiveness (like with the different ChessTiger "levels")...but recent CEGT >>test seems to indicate that they don't have a big effect on ELO. >> >>http://www.husvankempen.de/nunn/ranglisteall.html >> >>Shredder 9 eccentric seems to be weaker or at most at the same level as default. >>Even for CM (with dozens of personalities and hundreds of tests, starting from >>CM8000) the most tested settings are still in a confidence range overlapping the >>confidence range of the default. Realistically the improvement will be under 30 >>elo. >> >>So....do you think that different setting can be useful for development of >>engines or they are just another way to have fun with computer chess ? > >The authors of the engines will have spent a lot of time trying to find optimal >settings. But you might be able to beat it. So some people make a hobby of it. > >The CM fans seem to have the largest stable of settings freaks, for whatever >reason. > >The open source program Beowulf has a large number of user-settable parameters.
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