Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:42:14 05/26/02
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On May 26, 2002 at 03:50:26, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>On May 26, 2002 at 01:20:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 26, 2002 at 01:04:05, J. C. Boco wrote:
>>
>>>Christophe,
>>>
>>>If I might I have a suggestion for the ChessTiger program. Can you add a random
>>>factor into the program, such that if it finds 2 or more moves which return the
>>>same score the program will randomly pick 1 of the 2 (or more) candidate moves?
>>>In this way it will offer more variety in how it plays, in addition to the 4
>>>personalities and anti-human on/off settings.
>>
>>
>>Alphabeta does not allow to do this without a huge slowdown.
>>
>>I think I'll add a much bigger book, so variety will come from the book. That's
>>how the PC chess programs do it.
>
>If you have piece-square tables, you can add a small random factor before
>the game starts and have chaos theory do the rest.
>
>--
>GCP
Frankly I do not like the idea. I think I would instead select a "playing style"
at random before each search. This way at least the strength of the program is
controlled.
Christophe
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