Author: Francois Bertin
Date: 09:12:33 11/24/98
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On November 24, 1998 at 09:40:07, Georg Langrath wrote:
>I feel a little bit sorry for chessprogrammers. They shall always find new
>features in order to convince us that we need to buy their new product. But
>what more do we want in features? Any ideas?
In a future version of Rebel, to take an example, I would be less
interested in stronger play than in options for a more sophistated
game analysis (i.e. choice of candidate moves, best second move, etc.)
and most of all, more options to help a player develop his chess
abilities and understanding while playing the program, i.e. a coaching
option that would warn a player if he makes a tactical or positional
mistake. However, this is rather hard to implement effectively in
a chess program.
Among other things, an option to weaken the program's playing
strenght by limiting its book depth would be very useful; It's not
easy to try to beat Rebel, even if it is set at 1200 ELO, when it
still can use grandmaster knowledge in the opening... :-)
Regards,
François Bertin
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