Questions for Koivisto / Seer programmers ...

[Frank Quisinsky]

Hi there,

1.
Easy to see that Seer and Koivisto got in newer versions (v2.5.0 / v8.0 or higher) an ...
With my own words ... booster for more aggressive play with many pieces on board.
Both programs goes many places higher in my short-game stats.

In my opinion ... this have for sure nothing to do with NN ideas.

Sources are free but my knowledge about sources is very small.

Interesting is ...
What is the secret for it?

2.
A wish to the Koivisto team:
I saw that the programmer of Berserk added the UCI contempt setting.
This is just great and important, thank you!
Much better for games with longer time controls!!

I made the mistake that I not changes contempt parameters for engines in my tourney.
Using the standard settings. Today I like more to set contempt = 0 for games with longer time controls.
Lost not so many energy for long draw games.
My wish is to add contempt in UCI settings.
Koivisto must have a secret and very high contempt I can't change!

Best
Frank

For futures tourneys.
Can't changed anything of settings in my still running tourney.