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Subject: Re: Features of future chessprograms.

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 11:36:23 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.
>
>  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

Rebel 8,9, and 10 already gives you the choice of candidate moves submenu called
Analysis Include.
--
Komputer Korner



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