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

Author: Olaf Jenkner

Date: 11:03:21 01/30/01

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>
>There are three easy ways to tone crafty down:
>
>1.  use the "extension" command to reduce or completely disable the various
>search extensions.  This will make it less tactically "aware".
>
>2.  turn off null-move completely.
>
>3.  use the "evaluation" command to scale some of the 'knowledge' back.  IE
>reduce things like pawn structure, passed pawns, king safety, and so forth.
>
>If you find something you like, setting wise, send it to me and I will add
>a "personality" feature to make it easy to invoke your settings...

I think thats not the way of humans weak playing.
If you scale 'knowledge' back, a human can use this and play better.
If you reduce extensions the human can use horizon effect.
A downscaled chess programm should 'oversee' some things. I mean
it should do a normal search but randomcally make mistakes. For instance
to forget a hanging peace.
I don't know if commercial programs have a such approach,
I think but it would be nice.

Olaf Jenkner



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