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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 6666 settings

Author: Shep

Date: 03:34:58 08/09/99

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On August 09, 1999 at 05:07:23, Harald Faber wrote:

>No problem, I will be offline but not without my Laptop. :-)
>So I think I will change the settings above. :-)
>I admit I am surprised that the Bednorz settings are said to perform well in
>spite of their passivity.

Don't forget CM's default settings are also quite passive.
It has scored like 15 draws in 20 games so far...

I have also been fiddling with the Selective Search setting quite a bit.
Problem is that for every depth there are positions where it fails miserably.
"Lower" settings (i.e. 5-10) seem to be better in most endgames while higher
settings (like 32) have their merits only in selected endgames.
For most middle game positions, I can see hardly any difference between SS10 and
SS32.
SS=8 produces the best average results on the LCT 2 suite, with 10 and 32 coming
close. 5-7 are worse most of the time, but not significantly.
Anything below 5 is bad to really bad.
Only SS=0 is a really really bad setting, even on a superfast machine. I proved
it. :)

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Shep



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