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Subject: Re: Personality for Crafty -> make Crafty "human"...

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 16:38:02 01/29/01

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On January 29, 2001 at 18:21:54, Wayde Beasley wrote:

>Freeboard allows one to save multiple "profiles" of crafty eval and extension
>settings -- call them up at any time, change multiple settings on the fly at the
>click of a mouse, etc.  I could implement a kind of randomized profile automaton
>whereby Freeboard changes the various extension and eval settings BEFORE sending
>the user's move to the engine -- what kind of weird play would be produced doing
>that, I wonder.  Hmmm ... I think I'll dub that "schizophrenic mode."  Shouldn't
>be too hard to implement, but, that goes in the "doodad" category and must be
>shoved to the backburner cuz I got more pressing debugging problemas w/ FB.

I think you can change things ok in Crafty without starting a new game.  If you
want to dumb Crafty up real fast in Winboard, you can hit "Alt 1" and enter a
very low search depth like "sd=3" or something.

You might want to consider being able to set up 10 or so profiles for Crafty,
and Freeboard could randomly choose between them without notice (when in the
random mode) so you'd have some control over the insanity, or is that basically
what you're saying?  Being able to control the bounds of it's randomness would
make it more palatable to many.

Pete



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