Ranking Chessmaster Settings

Chessmaster 8000/9000/10k - Settings

(Played in Chessmaster, but mainly in CB-GUI's with Malin's WB2UCI-Adapter!)

The King 3.33 (Chessmaster 10k) is only ranked 135/140 (!) with 250 Elo-points behind the best CM10k setting.
The King 3.23 (Chessmaster 9000) is only ranked 104/140 (!) with 155 Elo-points behind the best CM 9000 setting.
The King 3.12d (Chessmaster 8000) is only ranked 132/140 (!) with 120 Elo-points behind the best CM 8000 personality.

Rank Personality Elo Games
1 CM10k Schumacher 2821 538
2 CM9000 Slayer2 Blitz 2809 29 (not enough games yet)
3 CM9000 R2 2805 215
4 CM10k Schumacher B 2801 76
5 CM9000 R1 2799 524
6 CM10k Milan 1.3 2797 112
7 CM10k R1X 2797 254
8 CM10k Schumacher1b 2789 69
9 CM9000 Surak8c 2789 522
10 CM10k BUC 2788 233
11 CM10k Milan 1.5 2784 102
12 CM9000 Milan 1.5 2782 128
13 CM9000 BUC-Blitz 2778 455
14 CM10k Milan 1.4b 2777 116
15 CM9000 Cronus 2776 238
16 CM9000 Blasphemy 2773 438
17 CM9000 Judge 2768 119
18 CM9000 Grailmaster7 2766 876
19 CM9000 M2v.5 2766 601
20 CM9000 EN 2764 155
21 CM9000 Grailmaster8 2764 373
22 CM10k R1 2762 97
23 CM10k Speedy 2762 78
24 CM9000 VN Hannibal 2762 205
25 CM10k Creep 2760 98
26 CM9000 KH 2760 133
27 CM9000 Tato4 2760 101
28 CM9000 Mapi 2759 339
29 CM9000_modified 2758 138
30 CM10k AntiShredder 2756 154
31 CM10k Rhino 2755 74
32 CM9000 Tato3 2755 92
33 CM9000 AntiCM 2754 372
34 CM9000 Judge2 2751 129
35 CM9000 Sedat 2751 454
36 CM9000 Tato2 2751 480
37 CM9000 Gladiator 2749 302
38 CM9000 Mapi2 2749 79
39 CM10k Tato5 2747 80
40 CM10k Surak 2746 106
41 CM9000 Grailmaster6 2745 197
42 CM9000 Grailmaster4 2744 125
43 CM9000 MCx 2744 112
44 CM10k Judge 2741 76
45 CM9000 WH 2741 118
46 CM9000 WHx 2741 250
47 CM10k Cronus 2740 63
48 CM10k Grailmaster 2738 16
49 CM10k R3 2738 104
50 CM9000 Galileo 2738 92
51 CM9000 Cyborg 2734 68
52 CM9000 Surak7 2732 130
53 CM9000 Ptah 2731 93
54 CM9000 TO5 2731 56
55 CM9000 Utz12p 2731 158
56 CM9000 J 2729 72
57 CM9000 SKR 2729 220
58 CM9000 MM 2728 124
59 CM10k Milan 1.4 2725 106
60 CM9000 Prueba 2725 160
61 CM9000 Grailmaster2 2720 486
62 CM9000 Dimitris 2717 64
63 CM10k R2 2710 41
64 CM9000 Relentless 2710 53
65 CM Grailmaster2 2708 762
66 CM9000 Pillen 2704 83
67 CM9000 Milan2+ 2703 160
68 CM9000 Tom 2703 54
69 CM9000 Milan2+b 2701 191
70 CM Surak3 2700 388
71 CM9000 Milan2 2700 236
72 CM Utz10n 2699 342
73 CM9000 G-Blitz5 2695 51
74 CM9000 G-Blitz6 2695 156
75 CM Titan 2694 292
76 CM Legend 2693 236
77 CM9000 Utz12n 2691 258
78 CM10k Striker 2690 48
79 CM10k Steadfast 2689 90
80 CM9000 Torc 2687 183
81 CM Pillager 2684 90
82 CM Tato 2683 296
83 CM9000 Tato1 2682 119
84 CM9000 Surak3 2681 170
85 CM Kicman 2679 144
86 CM 8125 2678 133
87 CM9000 G-Blitz3 2678 24
88 CM9000 G-Blitz7 2678 37
89 CM Elrey 2676 245
90 CM9000 Odessa 2675 68
91 CM 6666 2673 158
92 CM Surak5 2673 141
93 CM9000 G-Blitz8 2672 142
94 CM9000 JEB1581 2670 94
95 CM10k Kasparov 2668 97
96 CM Grailmaster3 2667 131
97 CM Kiwi2 2664 129
98 CM_MG1 2658 109
99 CM King 2657 120
100 CM KKND 2655 62
101 CM 8889 2654 144
102 CM Pillen 2654 233
103 CM NextAS 2653 222
104 CM Surak2 2650 163
105 CM9000 2650 167
106 CM Trojan 2647 87
107 CM Surak 7.0 2646 54
108 CM_MG2 2646 68
109 CM9000 Brain2.1 2646 79
110 CM9000 G-Blitz1 2646 25
111 CM9000 Milan1 2646 18
112 CM_8777v1 2645 157
113 CM9000 Milan 2644 114
114 CM Brain 2643 185
115 CM 8777v4 2638 191
116 CM Omega 2638 137
117 CM Schüle 2636 117
118 CM Xiej 2635 101
119 CM Grailmaster1 2634 25
120 CM Ellwein 2633 61
121 CMFun 2630 120
122 CM Ming 2628 93
123 CM9000 Milan3 2625 25
124 CM9000 Ruby 2625 50
125 CM Botwinnik 2624 204
126 CM Fischer 2622 86
127 CM Octopus 2622 126
128 CM Surak4 2620 18
129 CM Utzinger 2611 133
130 CM Fortress 2609 136
131 CM9000 U-Blitz 2608 32
132 CM9000 G-Blitz2 2606 19
133 CM Ace 2602 103
134 Chessmaster 8000 2588 833
135 CM White 2579 59
136 CM 10000 2571 86
137 CM9000 Ivanchuk 2567 74
138 CM Jodocus Kwak 2551 103
139 CM9000 G-Blitz4 2540 24
140 CM Surak1 2514 25
141 CM Feigling 2122 16


Logos: Press wb2uci for the WB2UCI.eng entry.
Press CMP for the Chessmaster CMP-file. CM = Chessmaster values (no CMP-file).

CM10k Schumacher

wb2uci
CM10k Milan 1.5

wb2uci
CM10k Steadfast

wb2uci
CM10k Striker2

wb2uci
CM9000 Slayer2 Blitz

wb2uci
CM9000 BUC-Blitz

wb2uci
CM9000 Tato4

wb2uci
CM10k Speedy

wb2uci
CM10k Rhino

wb2uci
CM10k Striker

wb2uci
CM9000 Galileo

wb2uci
CM9000 Cronus

wb2uci
CM9000 Relentless

wb2uci
CM9000 KH

wb2uci
CM9000 Ptah

wb2uci
CM9000 VN Hannibal

wb2uci
CM9000 Surak8c

wb2uci
CM9000 Blasphemy

wb2uci
CM9000 R1

wb2uci
CM9000 Judge

wb2uci
CM9000 Grailmaster8

wb2uci
CM9000 Mapi

wb2uci
CM9000 Surak7

wb2uci
CM9000 AntiCM

wb2uci
CM9000 Gladiator

wb2uci
CM9000 M2v5

wb2uci
CM9000 WHx

wb2uci
CM9000 J

wb2uci
CM9000 JEB1581

wb2uci
CM9000 Tom

wb2uci
CM9000 Prueba

wb2uci
CM9000 MCx

wb2uci
CM9000 WH

wb2uci
CM9000 EN

wb2uci
CM9000 modified

wb2uci
CM9000 SKR

wb2uci
CM9000 Tato2

wb2uci
CM9000 Dimitris

wb2uci
CM9000 Grailmaster7

wb2uci, CMP
CM9000 Sedat

wb2uci
CM Grailmaster2

wb2uci
CM Grailmaster 3

wb2uci
CM Trojan

wb2uci
CM9000 Utz12n

wb2uci
CM Kiwi2

wb2uci
CM Surak 3

wb2uci
CM Legend

wb2uci, CMP
CM Titan

wb2uci, CMP
CM Pillager

wb2uci, CMP
CM Elrey

wb2uci, CMP
CM 8889

wb2uci
CM 6666

wb2uci, CMP
CM MG2

wb2uci, CMP
CM Ellwein

wb2uci
CM Pillen

wb2uci
CM Ming

wb2uci, CMP
CM Brain

wb2uci, CMP
CM Schüle

wb2uci
CM NextAS

wb2uci, CMP
CM 8777v1

wb2uci
CM Omega

wb2uci, CMP
CM King

wb2uci, CMP
CM 8777v4

wb2uci, CMP
CM Fun

wb2uci, CMP
CM Fischer

wb2uci, CMP
CM Octopus

wb2uci, CMP
CM Botwinnik

wb2uci, CMP
CM Ace

wb2uci, CMP
CM KKND

wb2uci, CMP
CM Xiej

wb2uci, CMP
CM Utz

wb2uci, CMP
Chessmaster

wb2uci
CM Fortress

wb2uci, CMP
CM White

wb2uci, CMP
CM Jodocus Kwak

wb2uci
CM 8125

wb2uci
CM G-Blitz8

wb2uci
CM Ivanchuk

wb2uci, CMP
CM Kicman

wb2uci
CM Milan

wb2uci
CM Tato

wb2uci
CM9000 Grailmaster2

wb2uci
CM9000 Odessa

wb2uci, CM
CM9000 Torc

wb2uci, CM
CM9000 Surak3

wb2uci
CM Utz10n

wb2uci
CM Milan1

wb2uci
CM Milan2

wb2uci
CM Milan3

wb2uci
CM G-Blitz6

wb2uci
Attention: For faster loading, these logos are all in jpg-format. If you want to have a logo in Fritz/Arena/Shredder you must make a bmp file and give it the same name as the adapter (eg.: WB2UCI.bmp). You can download all the logos here: cmLOGOS.ZIP or save a logo with rightclick:"save as bmp".


Important Note 1: These settings are mainly played in Chessbase GUI's with the WB2UCI-Malin Adapter. So don't try to copy the Adapter-values into Chessmaster. That will not work. It is possible to calculate the values backwards from the Malin-values; but that is very difficult and for some values just not possible. I recommend to use for testing the Malin-Adapter because you can work with values, that are not possible within the Chessmaster 8000-GUI.
Here an Example for the Grailmaster2-Setting:

opp=102 opn=102 opb=105 opr=102 opq=102 myp=102 myn=102 myb=107 myr=102 myq=104 cc=100 mob=110 ks=146 pp=108 pw=126 avd=-4 cfd=0 sop=100 rnd=0 sel=10 md=99 ana=1

Calculated for the Chessmaster-GUI this will something like that:
Attacker/Defender: -4
Strengt of play: 100
Randomness: 0
Max search depth: 99
Selective search: 10 (maybe increase with longer time controls)
Contempt of draw: 0
Material/Position: -3
Control of Center: 103
Mobility: 113
King Safety: 150
Passed Pawns: 111
Pawn Weakness: 130
Own Queen: 9.2
Opposing Queen: 9.0
Own Rook: 5.0
Opp. Rook: 5.0
Own Bishop: 3.2
Opp. Bishop: 3.1
Own Knight: 3.0
Opp. Knight: 3.0
Own Pawn: 1.0
Opp. Pawn: 1.0

However, this values are only approximations because one value for Own Bishop is not fully correct: Translated into Malin-Adapter it will give: myb=108; but the number should be 107. So, in theory you have to set Own Bishop=5.15, but that is impossible. You could reach a number of 107 by setting material/position to -2, but then all other values will change. So, if you want a possible translations within the GUI's, go always from the Chessmaster-Setting to Malin and not the other way around :-)

Alternative WB2UCI-eng for CM 9000:

[ENGINE]
Name=The King 3.23
Author=Johan de Koning
Filename=TheKingUCI.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=theking.exe
InitString=cm_parm default\ncm_parm opk=XXXXXX
HashCommand=cm_parm tts=%i000000
Visible=Ponder,Hash,Logfile,Extras

[EXTRAS]
Opponents Pawn (opp)=cm_parm opp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Opponents Knight (opn)=cm_parm opn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Bishop (opb)=cm_parm opb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Opponents Rook (opr)=cm_parm opr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Opponents Queen (opq)=cm_parm opq=%i|spin|100|0|498
Kings Pawn (myp)=cm_parm myp=%i|spin|100|0|4500
Kings Knight (myn)=cm_parm myn=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Bishop (myb)=cm_parm myb=%i|spin|100|0|1500
Kings Rook (myr)=cm_parm myr=%i|spin|100|0|900
Kings Queen (myq)=cm_parm myq=%i|spin|100|0|498
My Centre Control (mycc)=cm_parm mycc=%i|spin|100|0|600
My Mobility (mymob)=cm_parm mymob=%i|spin|100|0|600
My King Safety (myks)=cm_parm myks=%i|spin|100|0|600
My Passed Pawn (mypp)=cm_parm mypp=%i|spin|100|0|600
My Pawn Weakness (mypw)=cm_parm mypw=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponent's Centre Control (opcc)=cm_parm opcc=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponent's Mobility (opmob)=cm_parm opmob=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponent's King Safety (opks)=cm_parm opks=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponent's Passed Pawn (oppp)=cm_parm oppp=%i|spin|100|0|600
Opponent's Weakness (oppw)=cm_parm oppw=%i|spin|100|0|600
Contempt (cfd)=cm_parm cfd=%i|spin|0|-500|500
Strength (sop)=cm_parm sop=%i|spin|100|0|100
Attack Defend (avd)=cm_parm avd=%i|spin|0|-100|100
Randomness (rnd)=cm_parm rnd=%i|spin|0|0|100
Selective Search (sel)=cm_parm sel=%i|spin|9|0|12
Max Depth (md)=cm_parm md=%i|spin|999|0|999


Note 2:
It is possible, that some values in the WB2UCI-files are not the one, the original authors used. They should be the same, but mistakes can happen. Most of the values were found in different chess-fora or send by other testers.

Note 3:
If you have very good, really competitive settings, you can send them to me by e-mail. I might try them in this tournament.

Note 4:
You can download all the Chessmaster-Logos here(in jpg-format !): cmLOGOS.ZIP (250 kb) Most of this logos are from me (Surak). Not designed by Surak were Chessmaster, Fischer, Hannibal, Torc, Odessa and 8888v4.

Note 5:
You can download all the Chessmaster-Settings here: cmsettings.ZIP (61 kb)
You can't use the jpg-logos. If you want to have a logo in Fritz 7/Arena/Shredder you must make a bmp file and give it the same name as the adapter.

Note 6:
Important changes from CM 8000 to CM 9000:
Chessmaster 9000 (King 3.23) allows additional parameters to be changed compared to the older Chessmaster 8000 (King 3.12d) so you can alter more settings now. In contrast to Chessmaster 8000, the latest version allows you to set separate values for The King's evaluation of it's own safety, mobility, passed pawn and pawn weakness and now another set of values for The King's evaluation of the opponent's King safety, mobility, passed pawn and pawn weakness.
So, the new parameters look like this:

mycc=100 --> My Control of centre
mymob=100 --> My Mobility
myks=100 --> My King safety
mypp=100 --> My Passed pawn
mypw=100 --> My Pawn weakness
opcc=100 --> Opponent's Control of centre
opmob=100 --> Opponent's Mobility
opks=100 --> Opponent's King safety
oppp=100 --> Opponent's Passed pawn
oppw=100 --> Opponet's Pawn weakness

Important: If you use an CM 8000 setting in CM 9000 all values for the opponent are set to the default value=100 !
Furthermore, the maximum selective search value you can use in Chessmaster 9000 has increased to 16 as compared to 12 in Chessmaster 8000. The defaults have also changed from 6 to 9. I recommend to use lower values for Blitz and higher values for longer time-controls --> Bullet: SS6; Blitz (5min): SS8; Rapids (10min): SS10; over 20min: SS12 to SS16 (at Tournament Time Control).

Here a test-tournament with the Grailmaster-Settings at 3m+1s; Chessmaster 8000 GUI:

          1      2      3      4     5      6     7
1 Sel 6 ****** 01100½ ½11½01 ½1½110 011½01 ½½½11½ 0½½110    21.0/36
2 Sel 10 10011½ ****** ½½0110 1½100½ 011001 ½½1001 110110    19.5/36 345.50
3 Sel 8 ½00½10 ½½1001 ****** ½1100½ 11½001 100111 ½½1110    19.5/36 338.25
4 Sel 7 ½0½001 0½011½ ½0011½ ****** 101110 ½0100½ ½½1101   18.0/36
5 Sel 12 100½10 100110 00½110 010001 ****** 101001 1½1001   16.5/36
6 Sel 9 ½½½00½ ½½0110 011000 ½1011½ 010110 ****** ½0½001   16.0/36
7 Sel 11 1½½001 001001 ½½0001 ½½0010 0½0110 ½1½110 ******   15.5/36

Note 7:
If you want to change the hash table size for The King you could add:
\ncm_parm tts=hash ttu=n in the WB2UCI.eng or InBetween.ini.
Example:
xboard := xboard\nhard\neasy\npost\nnew\ncm_parm default\ncm_parm tts=33554432 ttu=7 opk=xxxxx
This would give about 32Mb hash size.
Hash settings (tts and ttu)
- Hash=0 tts=4096, ttu=0
- Hash=512Kb tts=524288, ttu=1
- Hash=1Mb tts=1048576, ttu=2
- Hash=2Mb tts=2097152, ttu=3
- Hash=4Mb tts=4194304, ttu=4
- Hash=8Mb tts=8388608, ttu=5
- Hash=16Mb tts=16777216, ttu=6
- Hash=32Mb tts=33554432, ttu=7
- Hash=64Mb tts=67108864, ttu=8

Links related to Chessmaster-Settings:
Setting up The King in Fritz/Winboard/Arena: Aaron Tay FAQ
Chessmaster 9000: Chessmaster home
CM Settings in Tourneys: Harald Faber
Setting up The King in Fritz: Malin's FAQ
Settings in WB2UCI for Fritz, Shredder Classic, Chess Assistant: WB2UCI
OPK-Utility: EVCOMP
Arena GUI: Arena
CM-Settings in Tourneys: Gerhard Sonnabend
More CM-Settings in Tourneys: Kurt & Rolf Chess