Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:19:55 11/11/02
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On November 11, 2002 at 11:12:56, Bob Durrett wrote: >Although disappointed, I would nevertheless be satisfied if CM offered fully >tested personalities complete with performance information. For example, if all >of the personalities supplied by/with CM were to be put into a list, with the >first personality having the highest "overall strength," then that might be OK >provided that the measured overall strength were published. I'm a bit confused. The ratings for the personalities are "published", because they are displayed right next to the personality within the game. Also, they are "listed", because in the "Select Personality" dialog, all of the personalities are ranked from strongest to weakest, top to bottom. >CM may not wish to publish anything that suggests that CM is not always >"strong." However, the needs of amateur chess players would be served best by >publishing that data. You seem to be confused about something (or I'm still confused about what you are talking about). Anybody can create a personality that will lose almost every game. This is obviously not "strong". There are over 100 personalities in the game that are obviously less than optimum strength, and they are clearly rated as such. >Perhaps settings not directly associated with "personality" might yeild an >amateur performance level. Unfortunately, my experience with "dumbed-down" >chess engines has been that they have terrible playing styles. Nobody would >want to play against them because they do not play human-like moves and they can >be defeated easily by anti-computer chess. Playing anti-computer chess is no >fun except possibly for a computer chess programmer trying to study the >software. Of course, computer chess programmers are rather odd anyway. : ) I'm still confused. All settings are directly associated with "personality". There are no settings for the program outside the engine settings. jm
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