Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 19:31:05 04/07/01
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On April 07, 2001 at 17:31:12, Vine Smith wrote: >On April 07, 2001 at 13:13:25, Aaron Tay wrote: > >>On April 07, 2001 at 06:37:01, Vine Smith wrote: >> >>>On April 06, 2001 at 23:49:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On April 06, 2001 at 16:13:11, Vine Smith wrote: >>>>If you look at the documentation file, "evaluation" command, you can scale >>>>king safety up, make it asymmetric in the opposite direction that it is now >>>>so that the opponent's king safety is more important that crafty's king safety, >>>>then ramp up the 'tropism' term... >>>I'll give it a try. Are you interested in hearing of any results or testing? >>>Also, if you have any numeric guidelines, such as "Don't set king safety higher >>>than x, or it just gets ridiculous", I'd appreciate the info. >> >>I doubt it will work. My guess is you really have to work on adding more >>knowledge rather than just shifting the weights on existing postional factors.. >>But what do I know..?? >Perhaps, but it's worth trying anyway. I suppose Crafty's existing positional >factors were fine-tuned by autoplay against other Crafty versions, but what >about versus other programs? I'm sure Dr Hyatt will comment if he wishes, but I seriously doubt this is the case.AFAIK from various postings, Crafty is tested mainly on ICC against Humans and other computers ,with a heavier weightage against Humans , and I believe the policy is not to play against Crafty clones.. So, there is no autoplay at all.. >And, against human opponents, who would find an >aggressive style more unnerving? Perhaps..But Crafty currently is already geared more towards playing against Humans I think.. >Maybe other factors will need adjustment as >well -- I don't think an attacking program should worry too much about pawn >structure, for instance. >But my question is whether I would just be duplicating >someone else's efforts; haven't there been some Crafty "clones" already along >such lines, including one which played the "Halloween Attack" a lot (1.e4 e5 >2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nxe4?!)? I believe that was started by Hossa, which is not a Crafty clone.
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