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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 6000 Settings

Author: Shep

Date: 00:33:48 08/05/99

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On August 05, 1999 at 03:18:39, Harald Faber wrote:

>
>On August 04, 1999 at 17:38:23, Gerald Grimsley wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know what are the strongest settings for Chessmaster 6000 for
>>overnight analysis?  I have 64Mb of RAM memory with my computer.  Thanks.
>
>So far Hash set to 16-32MB and selectivity set to 10 are the best settings.
>Maybe Kai Lübkes/Didzis Cirulis settings called CM6666 will be better but this
>has to be proved. (And they are not known yet...)

Besides, this would strongly depend on the time control.
The best settings for overnight analysis may be far from being the best at
tournament TC, and those in turn far from being the best at Blitz.
CM 5555 is a good example; its relative strength decreases when going from
40/120 on 233 MHz to 40/120 at 400 MHz.
CM6666 may suffer from the same problems (it is optimized for 40/120 on my 550
MHz machines).

My personal opinion is that for overnight analysis, a high selectivity is indeed
the best choice.

You might wish to experiment by setting the Selective Search to something higher
than 10. You can do this by editing the .cmx file with a hex editor and
increasing the value of byte $50.
You may also want to change the max depth in the same way by increasing the
value of byte $34.
These manipulations have not been thoroughly tested, though. In fact, I don't
even know if CM will actually differentiate between SS=10 and higher values as
the latter are not "officially" supported.

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Shep




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