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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