Author: Luis Smith
Date: 16:46:59 07/06/03
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On July 06, 2003 at 19:42:35, Peter Hegger wrote: >Hello, >Perhaps this idea is already implemented in some engines, but if not it might be >worth considering. >First off, I have a 9 year old grandson who is really getting interested in >chess. He's probably 500-600 rating or thereabouts at this stage in his chess >career. Like so many others his age, one of his main problems is moving too >quickly. When I play against him I deliberately take 30 seconds or so even on >the most basic opening moves just to try and set a slow pace that might get him >to consider his moves longer. It does seem to work to some extent and he has >slowed down against me when we play. However, when he plays his chess engine, >(chessmaster 2100) it will let him move as quickly as he wants to. This seems to >get him back into quick move mode and undoes to some extent the teaching of >patience. >Are their any chess engines that can be set so that a move will not be accepted >by the program before 15 seconds, 30 seconds or whatever the user types in has >elapsed? Would it be a good teaching aid or would it just bore beginners into >taking up some other game instead? >Regards, >Peter Crafty does this, and I am sure others do this too. You can set Crafty to search at a certain depth (perhaps maybe depth of 1 or 3 for your grandson) and it will play the move like it normally would. You could also disable the opening book so he won't move so quickly in the beginning. If you go to Hyatt's FTP I believe he has some documentation on it. ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/doc
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