Author: James T. Walker
Date: 16:27:59 11/28/00
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On November 28, 2000 at 17:56:45, John Merlino wrote: >On November 28, 2000 at 17:26:22, ujecrh wrote: > >>I did not see any answers on these topics yet so let me send them again. The >>first one is very interesting to have and does not seem difficult to implement, >>the second might go against some basic CM designs so you may have good reason to >>not want it: >> >>1/ It would be nice if we could specify an initialization string that will be >>send to the winboard engine when it is started like winboard does (with the >>parameter /initString=...). It could either be from a ChessMaster textfield in a >>dialog box or simply offer the option to give a filename. Then, when the >>winboard engine is started, the content of the given file is sent as is. Either >>way would be greatfor example when you want to disable ponder and the engine >>does not support any parameter to do it from command line but requires the >>"easy" command >>to be sent. >> >>2/ Allow custom personalities and winboard engines to have ratings and play >>rated games ! >> >> >>Ujecrh > >To be quite honest, it is doubtful that either of these will get in the patch. >The first one is a good idea, but will probably be added next version. Since it >isn't a bug, it will be always put on the back burner in favor of fixing bugs. > >The second one is very difficult, because trying to "accurately" calculate a >rating for a custom personality or an imported engine is basically impossible, >and there would be little to no point in approximating the rating. However, the >next version MIGHT allow the user to SPECIFY a rating for a custom/imported >personality. But, once again, this would not be bug-fixing.... > >jm Hello John, The idea of allowing created personalities to earn a rating should be simple. Since I can log on and earn a rating after 20 games, any created personality or external engine should be able to do it too. Of course this is not a bug but should be not so hard to implement some day since the formula for creating a rating is already there and being used. Engine/Engine or personality/personality games could be used as the basis for determining the rating Jim
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