Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 20:07:12 11/16/03
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On November 16, 2003 at 12:35:32, Geoff Lane wrote: >On November 16, 2003 at 11:54:24, Bob Durrett wrote: > >> >>It often happens that the second best middlegame move, and sometimes third, >>fourth, etc., are almost as good as the best move insofar as the engine can >>tell. >> >>A chess engine programmer could program the engines to offer more variety [in >>the middlegame] by providing a randomizing function in the engine. This >>function would cause the engine to play second-best moves a certain percentage >>of the time. This would be done only if the second best move were "almost" as >>good as the best move. >> >>To make consumers happy, the engine designer could provide a way for the human >>user to adjust the probabilities of playing alternate moves. >> >>Just an idea. [ Does everybody like "new" ideas? : ) ] > >I don't think this is such a new idea, Bob. The dedicated chess computer Novag >Scorpio 68000 has a BEST MOVE/RANDOM button. When RANDOM is selected the >computer randomly chooses between two or more moves which are almost equal in >evaluation. This I believe is a 1991 machine and is probably not the first Novag >to have such a feature. > >Geoff > >> >>Bob D. I am not surprised. Such an obvious idea should have been thought of many times. Now, if we can only get the top commercial programs to offer this feature . . . Bob D.
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