Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 00:46:27 06/02/04
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On June 01, 2004 at 18:50:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Please. > >I had a choice: (1) continue the hand-tuned book approach I used in the Cray >Blitz days; (2) develop an alternative. > >I simply chose (2) because I wanted to see what was possible. Now you want to >punish any program that uses (2) but let the ones that use (1) continue to enjoy >they hand-prepared book. I don't want to punish anybody, I do however want to allow the user to do as he pleases without hearing me complain. At the point of release we relinquish all control of the engine. Expect the settings to be altered, expect the engine to play in all sort of weird environments. Don't complain about it saying that's not how it meant to be played. If you won't acknowledge that the user is boss at his end then don't release the engine to him. >It makes absolutely no sense. Why not play without books? There are problems with determanistic behavior of the engines. >Why not play with a >common (bad) book? Done often. > But certainly don't play with a book hand-tuned to program A >and program B might well do poorly with it. Why not, it might help you locate weaknesses. >The only viable choice is "hands off". Let the program have the best >opportunity to choose book lines by itself. That is the very essence of >computer chess anyway, _fully_ self-contained chess playing. That's certainly an interesting configuration. Does that mean all other configurations are worthless? No! >>I'm afraid that's just the way it is, I do the things I find interesting and >>funny to do. If people download it and turn it off as the first thing, well >>it's none of my business. > >No, but I can make that as impossible for Crafty as it is for programs that >don't have it in the first place... If you make it impossible I think Crafty will be kicked out of a lot of tournaments. People want to control the engine, if they can't the engine becomes less valuable to them. -S.
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