Author: Thom Perry
Date: 10:02:11 11/24/98
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On November 24, 1998 at 12:12:33, Francois Bertin wrote: >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. I think that MCP8 just incorporated this very feature. I'm not quite positive because I am still awaiting my update. It's my understanding that book selection also effects the MCP8 Elo rating, which is kinda similar to what you are talking about below. For example, if you shut off the opening books, MCP8 plays about 150 (I think) Elo lower. Anyhow, I'm eagerly awaiting the update which I just ordered from here. > > 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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