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Subject: Re: How does programs implement difficulty settings?

Author: ujecrh

Date: 16:24:54 06/12/00

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On June 12, 2000 at 18:17:06, Flemming Rodler wrote:

>Dear CCC-fans,
>
>I was just wondering how different programs/programmers implement difficulty
>settings like beginner,easy,medium,hard,... Is it simply decreased search depth,
>simpler evaluation functions, smaller hashtables, ... or is it something more
>complex?
>
>Thx
>Flemming

It is maybe not always as simple. For example I remember that, when I set Chess
System Tal (the DOS version) to play at a lower level then the nodes per seconds
rate decreases greatly (can go from 6000 to 300 for example).
It also seemed that it was not always choosing even the best move it found.

Ujecrh



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