Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 12:10:12 11/28/02
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On November 28, 2002 at 11:59:51, Benny Antonsson wrote: >On November 28, 2002 at 05:31:42, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: > >>On November 28, 2002 at 05:01:40, Benny Antonsson wrote: >> >>>That site contains millions of errors ! >>> >>>Me myself started a similair page, but gathering the information takes a HUGE >>>amount of time. >>> >>>http://www.codenet.se/alarm >> >>Hi. >> >>Could you add 'move now' as an attribute in the search page. >> >>Another thing that take much time :) >>Add an remark if an engine don't support some standard Winboard commands like >>force, level etc. >>This could go for Leo, you or this new gui. >> >>What we are missing is that someone take care of these engines and start testing >>them for playingstyle, possibilities to weaken etc. Eg. how friendly/useful are >>they for play against human. Maybe some presetup files for CP,CA*2,CM,CG,CB,C?. >>Maybe Alex Schmidt allready have most of these for CB-setup. And this >>winboard.ini file, was the sharing stoped with FQ. >> >>A start could be a possibility for a user to add a comment to an engine that >>could be brought up from a link in the list. >> >>Odd Gunnar > > >Well, NOW we are talking time consuming tasks ! Oh, yes! It wasn't really ment for you, or maybe it's my match strategi for CCT5 :) But seriously, there is a lot of work waiting to be done if someone want to do some work for the WB-community. > >What one could do, is to let the author of each engine fill in the blanks. I'm not too optimistic for this idea, to get such a site up there have to be a group of enthusiasts that start the site. We know Leo test a lot engines and not to forget Dann. I have still a printout of his good-list. He did also post a bad-list sometimes ago in the Winboard forum. For the adapter part, you have all the German testers (Alex, Manfred, ...). I too have tested many engines, espesially for: force, level, 'move now', and hash setting, but I haven't archived my findings in any structured way. There have been a few posts in the WB-forum for personality testing, but here you need people with different playing strength since the best impression is getting from actually playing against the engine. If you just start a site and hope for the best it is almost sure that you will sit with all work, and get bored after some month and the site vanish. The only way I can think this could work is if you make the site useful for yourself, so can others come with suggestions and try to convince you that you need this and that changes too. Odd Gunnar
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