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Subject: Re: first win against Crafty with LTC ... (changed topic)

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 20:26:27 05/28/04

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On May 28, 2004 at 22:57:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>I have gotten a pretty good start on a generic personality facility in Crafty.
>What I have done so far is:
>
>(1) all eval terms are now modifiable with a new version of the "eval" command.
>
>(2) there is a new "personality" command with two options, "personality save
><filename>" and "personality load <filename>".  What gets saved are all the
>evaluation parameters (there is no evaluate.h any longer), the extension values,
>and the selective search (null-move) parameters.  There is also a default
>crafty.cpf (cpf = crafty personality file) that crafty will use on start-up if
>it exists, so that you can make your favorite setting the default.
>
>You can now create dozens of personality.cpf type files, and load them by name.
>There is no limit to the possible number of different personalities, obviously,
>and any name is allowable (ie Karpov.cpf, Tal.cpf, etc.)
>
>I'd like to send it to you and let you take a look.  I believe you have added
>some other "controllable features" that we need to merge.  IE your CPU intensity
>or whatever the variable name is as well as anything else you think might be
>interesting.
>
>I've been running this version on ICC for days to be sure all the eval stuff
>worked ok, in addition to the normal test suite validation (node counts) that I
>do...
>
>Bob

I'm ready - send it over - mfbyrne_pa@msn.com

Mike



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