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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