Author: Harald Faber
Date: 04:07:02 08/09/99
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On August 09, 1999 at 06:34:58, Shep wrote: >>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. :) >--- >Shep SS=6 is a bit too low and fails sometimes. In many positions needs much more time to find a good move than with SS=10. Maybe 8-10 is the optimum.
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