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Subject: Re: WoW does crafty know how to take a beating!

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 09:59:40 11/22/02

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On November 22, 2002 at 11:47:30, Tim Foden wrote:

>On November 21, 2002 at 23:10:06, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 2002 at 22:32:21, ERIQ wrote:
>>
>>>Just got an opening book for Phalanx but no opening book for crafty. played a
>>>game just to see. Maybe I should set the resign alittle lower for crafty
>>
>>The problem with Crafty is that if it's playing another computer, it won't
>>resign.  I'm not sure what's the logic behind that design.  So in my WB 90 30
>>Ladder, I end up waiting and waiting for Crafty to get mated in hopeless
>>positions.  Perhaps Dr. Hyatt can enlighten us... why not make resigning against
>>other computers an option with Crafty?
>
>If you want to switch on the resigning in crafty, perhaps you could use
>InBetween (By Odd Gunnar Malin -- http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/) to filter
>out the "computer" command from WinBoard that tells the engine that it is
>playing a computer.

In Winboard you can tell it not to send the computer command using something
like /firstComputerString ""  . Seems easier than using InBetween

>If crafty doesn't know it is playing a computer, then it
>wouldn't switch off resigning.

It affects book width too i think.

>Cheers, Tim.



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