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Subject: Re: Question for John Merlino?

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 09:57:13 12/30/03

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On December 30, 2003 at 12:17:10, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On December 30, 2003 at 11:31:06, Javier Ros Padilla wrote:
>
>>On December 30, 2003 at 08:08:48, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On December 30, 2003 at 01:48:57, Javier Ros Padilla wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 29, 2003 at 23:25:44, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 29, 2003 at 19:22:35, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On December 29, 2003 at 19:12:26, Javier Ros Padilla wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Is there any chess program able to adjust style and parameters of play analysing
>>>>>>>the games of a player from a database?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>That is, is there any chess program able to imitate the style of a chess player?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Javier Ros
>>>>>>
>>>>>>There are several programs with "personality" settings that can be adjusted,
>>>>>>such as Chessmaster, Rebel, Deep Sjeng, and the modified Crafty 19.08 SE engine
>>>>>>by Mike Byrne.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards
>>>>>>Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>You can always build a book based on all the games of that player -- and you
>>>>>make programs more aggressive,defensive, sacrificial, cautious, strive for open
>>>>>or closed positions -- so in that context the answer might be yes if that is how
>>>>>you categorize how that player --- but it's a stretch to say any program plays
>>>>>like "xyz" player...
>>>>
>>>>Ok, I want to know if any program do this work automatic
>>>>
>>>>Javier Ros
>>>
>>>I am not exactly sure what you mean when you say "automatic" ...I have
>>>personality settings -- in crafty ...type "krafty morphy" at the command prompt
>>>or crafty.rc and it will more sacrifices, type "krafty petrosoan" it was play
>>>defensively and strive to keep the position closed, etc -- is that what you mean
>>>...
>>
>>When I say automatic work, I want to say that you only give to the program the
>>database and the name of the player. The program adjust the parameters of the
>>program spending hours or all night.
>>I think that Chessmaster creators have such program to build the personalities
>>
>>Javier Ros
>
>I do not know of one, but let's ask John Merlino - he would know.
>
>John , how did Ubisoft develop the personality GM parameters used in
>Chessmaster?  Was it automatic based on database analysis or just human
>judgment?
>
>TIA

Hi Mike

How do you develop the GM personality parameters for your Crafty SE series?

Regards
Dave



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