Author: pavel
Date: 00:52:03 04/29/04
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On April 28, 2004 at 22:48:06, Mike Byrne wrote:
>Some of the enhancements below were suggested by Crafty SE users!
>
>* The new "Jekyll and Hyde" personality was changed to "Jekyll and Hyatt" to
>honor, with a light touch of humor, the author of Crafty - Bob Hyatt.
>
>* A new GM personality “Najdorf” that will play the mirror the moves if the
>great GM Najdorf from 9….Bh2+ to the end of the game. (saved for one
>insignificant transposition) if provided sufficient time. On my machine, 10
>minutes was the max to find any one move.
>
>[Event ""]
>[Site "Varsovia"]
>[Date "1935"]
>[Round "-"]
>[White "Gluecksberg"]
>[Black "Najdorf Miguel"]
>[Result "0-1"]
>
>1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 d5 5. e3 c6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8.Ne2 Nbd7
>9. Ng5 Bxh2+ 10. Kh1 Ng4 11. f4 Qe8 12. g3 Qh5! 13. Kg2 Bg1!! 14.Nxg1 Qh2+ 15.
>Kf3 e5!! 16. dxe5 Ndxe5!+ 17. fxe5 Nxe5!+ 18. Kf4 Ng6+ 19. Kf3 f4 20. exf4 Bg4!+
>21. Kxg4 Ne5+ 22. fxe5 h5#
>
>
>* Crafty SE will now display the personality name in Arena and Winboard when
>used as a winboard engine. It will also be picked up automatically in the pgn
>file.
>
>* "ranper" was fixed (did not work properly), changed (it is now a "krafty
>extension" and will change every game (as opposed to every move). Most users
>did not like it changing every move, myself included.
>
>Example "krafty ranper 0 42" will select one of 43 personalities at random for
>every game.
>
>Example "krafty ranper 23 42" will select one of 20 GM personalities at random
>for every game.
>
>
>
>* The random settings selected by "Jekyll & Hyatt" personality ("krafty
>jekyll" at the command prompt or crafty.rc file will now be captured at the
>beginning of every log along with a "command string" for easy copying and
>pasting into the crafty.rc file for further testing of new settings that look
>promising.
>
>* A new randomness factor for the "Jekyll & Hyatt" personality that will act a
>turn dial to increase randomness of up to 50% of piece values. The initial
>"Jekyll & Hyatt" personality was a randomness of plus or minus 10% of piece
>values. The use can now increase this up to 50% in increments of 10%. If you do
>not set it, need not to worry; you will get the standard +- 10%. For randomness
>of +-20%, you would use "krafty jekyll 20", +- 30% "krafty jekyll 20" etc up to
>50%.
>
>* The "Jekyll and Hyatt" personality will no longer contain settings for search
>depth, so you may use this personality at the search depth of your choosing.
>
>* A user may now override all or just a few of the random pieces settings with
>your piece setting of you own. For example, say you always want to have the
>queen valued at 900. Type "value queen 900" in the crafty.rc file or command
>prompt and when you used "Jekyll and Hyatt" random setting personality, you will
>always get the value for 900 for the queen. "value rook 500" would lock the
>rook at 500 etc. All the other piece values will still be chosen at random.
>
>* General improvement in feedback when using some of 'extended Crafty SE"
>commands (both at the console level and in the logs).
>
>* Look for the update in your mailbox this weekend. I will post here when
>released.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>Michael
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pavs
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