Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 14:41:54 11/10/02
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On November 10, 2002 at 16:14:10, Mike S. wrote: >On November 10, 2002 at 14:46:32, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>(...) >>Perhaps something more automatic would be better. For example, the user tells >>the computer the desired engine playing strength and then the software >>automatically adjusts the opening move probabilities, all at one time, to >>provide the intended playing strength. > >I guess nobody knows which specific repertoire, or repertoire size even, >represents a specific playing strength. Also, there may be strong players with >less opening knowledge than weaker players. > >But the settings I meant are easy to use IMO: > >http://www.chessbase.com/support/gif/022700a.gif > >See also Steve Lopez Tech Notes about that (and many other computer chess topics >and how it's done with ChessBase software): > >http://www.chessbase.com/support/support.asp?pid=87 > >Options in other programs are even easier, i.e. in Genius you can choose from >opening styles like "classic", "modern", "gambit" etc. IIRC. Chessmaster 8000 >includes many specific book files assign to historic players (obivously intended >to represent their repertoire), but also special books like "Trapper", "Drawish" >or "Unorthodox", etc. > >So I think the options are available in various forms, and it depends on the >user skills to utilize them. Well, I will never be satisfied by what's offered. I will always want more. I guess I want more in this case, too. "I want" is the user's cry!!! To start with, I want something which requires the absolute minimum in user smarts. I want: Software which does it all for me without any special knowledge (other than chess) at all. As stated in some of my earlier bulletins posted here, I want everything! Specifically, I want to be able to tell the computer an ELO rating [from zero to infinity] and expect it to play at that rating plus or minus fifty rating points or better. If my rating is ELO 1000, then I want to be able to make my chess engine play the entire game, opening, middlegame, and endgame, at the ELO 900 level or at the ELO 1100 level, or whatever strikes my fancy. "Me want!" But that would not be good enough, really. There should be many innovative features designed to make my "software use" experience WONDERFUL. If you get my gist. : ) > >Btw. if the amateur hasn't memorized much but has focussed on general >understanding (which is certainliy recommandable), big books again aren't his >problem: He will leave the theory path early in the game anyway. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl
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