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Subject: Re: CSTal-2 vs Hiarcs 7.32

Author: greg moller

Date: 00:14:28 09/26/99

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On September 25, 1999 at 16:05:08, James T. Walker wrote:

>On September 25, 1999 at 13:59:38, greg moller wrote:
>
>>On September 24, 1999 at 09:59:57, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>Here is two games played last night with CSTal-2 using the "Original" Chess.sty
>>>file.  It's early but in these two games CSTal-2 shows it's attacking style and
>>>when it fails it is still able to save the draw.  So maybe this is the secret to
>>>a better CSTal-2.  The Chess.sty file I used in the 6-0 games was downloaded
>>>from the Oxford Software site.  I understood from Thorsten's earlier post that
>>>this was the best style and that is why it was used.  This may have been my
>>>error.  I will do some more testing.
>>>snip
>>
>>Was this Thorsten's style or the original style the program shipped out with?
>>
>>regards,
>>gm
>
>Hello Greg,
>I thought I made it clear.  These two games were played with the original
>Chess.sty file furnished with CSTal-2 not Thorstens style.  The 6 games I played
>originally vs Hiarcs 7.32 were with Thorstens style which I downloaded from the
>Oxford Softworks site.  In those six game Hiarcs won 6-0.  The original style is
>much better in my opinion.  I have since played 3 more games.  I now have 5
>games with the original style and Hiarcs won game 5 for the first win of the
>match to make the score 3-2 favor Hiarcs.
>Jim Walker

This is all very interesting, as I think Thorsten was convinced his style was
better regardless of whether the opponent was human or CPU. I've looked at the
changes he made --with the help of CSTal-DOS, and they are significant.
As far as I can recall the tweaked settings were meant to make the program play
even more actively/aggressively , among other things.

Would like to hear further comments from Thorsten on this.

regards,
gm



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