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Subject: Re: Many Thanks (n/t)

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 20:34:43 05/14/04

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On May 14, 2004 at 23:24:43, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>On May 14, 2004 at 19:49:29, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>Is it possible, with the Jekyll & Hyatt personality, to have random piece values
>>only, while keeping the other parameters at the default settings? If not, i
>>think this would be a nice option to add to Crafty SE.
>>
>>Regards
>>Dave
>
>
>That option will be included in will be in the Crafty 19.13 SE release tomorrow.
> Also included will be 4 new GM personalities - Staunton, Korchnoi, Gligoric and
>Polgar.  There are now 24 GM personalities.  So you can have a nice little
>tournament between yourself and some of the best GM's in the world ;>)
>
>A really cool new feature that will be included in the release tommorrow is
>random search depth.  Bruce Fox, a dedicated and die hard "Crafty SE" fan came
>up with this one - that's pretty slick as it really does help Crafty in
>simulating "human play" as Crafty will make some really good moves and maybe not
>some good moves all because of random search depth .
>
>The command is "rsd" and  the user sets the randomness range.  It also has
>separate randomness for the opening and middle game and for the endgame.  A low
>search depth in the endgame typically weakens the computer too much for humans
>relative to the human opening and middle game strength.  This allow the computer
>to be stronger in the endgame without being too weak in the endgame.
>
>format:
>
>rsd <low sd> <high sd>  <low sd endgame> <high sd endgame>
>
>Examples:
>
>"rsd 2 5 5 10" - will randomly select between 2 and 5 plies in the
>opening/middle and between 5 & 10 in the endgame.
>
>"rsd 3 3 5 10" will search 3 plies in the opening/middle and between 5 & 10 in
>the
>endgame.
>
>"rsd 1 5 8 8" will randomly select between 1 and 5 plies in the opening/middle
>and
>search 8 plies in the endgame.
>
>
>"rsd 3 3 5 5 will search 3 plies in the opening/middle and search 5 plies in the
>endgame.
>
>"rsd 3 5 3 5" will randomly select between 3 and 5 plies in the opening/middle
>and
>endgame
>
>"rsd 1 5 0 <x>" (<x> any number) will randomly select between 1 and 5 plies in
>the
>opening/middle and not be limited in endgame
>
>"rsd 0 <x> 0 <x>"  (<x> == any number) will not be limited in search by search
>depth at all in opening/middle/endgame - (you would never really need to use
>this - but it's nice to know if you're at the command prompt you are just
>testing it out.
>
>Also, fyi "rsd 3 3 3 3" == "sd 3"
>
>Also for those that like "spoken move annoucement" , it is an available option
>with this Crafty version and works very well with Odd Gunnar Malin's WB to DGT
>board converter . (requires other files avalable for freely from the net).
>
>Best,
>
>Michael



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