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Subject: Re: Is the CM6555 Personality Still the Strongest?

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 21:35:32 04/08/99

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On April 08, 1999 at 21:59:06, Brian Smith wrote:

>On April 08, 1999 at 20:11:31, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>
>>
>>On April 08, 1999 at 12:44:44, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>
>>> Are these Settings that were Posted by Komputer Korner the CM6555 And Strongest
>>>
>>> Opening Book: Mentor.OBK
>>> Style:
>>> Attacker/Defender -15
>>> Strengh of Play 100
>>> Randomness of Play 0
>>> Depth 100
>>> Selective Search 10
>>> Contempt for Draw 0.0
>>> Transposition Table and Deep Thinking should Never be Off
>>>
>>> Positional:                 Material:
>>>                             Queens:10.0,Rooks:5.5,Bishops:3.5,Knights:3.3,P:1.1
>>> Material/Positional 20
>>> Control of Center 90
>>> Mobility 115
>>> King Safety 160
>>> Passed Pawns 105
>>> Pawn Weakness 125
>>
>>
>>This is still debatable as to whether these are the strongest. I would still
>>stust the current CM6000 settings as the best.
>>
>>I have been one of many on here that have been testing differnt settings. And
>>have yet to find a clear winner. So no I would not say these are the best
>>settings. But if you want to know, just do what we do, create a tournament
>>between these settings and the CM6000 personality, and then put it on auto and
>>let them play at whatever time settings you want. But you need to play quite a
>>few, I say around 50 or more to get some idea as to which is the best
>
>I think it would be very hard to find a better personality for the reason that
>you don't know how it will perform against other programs/humans (whatever rings
>your bell).  I found a personality which did very well against the Chessmaster,
>yet when I tried it agianst another personality it didn't do as well and lost
>most of the games.

You also have to know that the chessmaster settings and the other GM
personalities are not all that different. So if a GM personality does beat the
CM6000 one, then I amnot surprised, but over allot of games, the CM6000 one will
turn out to be better



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