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Subject: Re: A new feature for crafty

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 13:19:50 06/08/04

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On June 08, 2004 at 15:53:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 08, 2004 at 14:22:44, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>
>>On June 08, 2004 at 13:57:38, Mihaly Szalai wrote:
>>
>>>On June 08, 2004 at 12:43:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 08, 2004 at 11:24:03, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Enable a user-defined list of accounts/opponents for which crafty will maintain
>>>>>separate learning files.
>>>>>
>>>>>Another twist might be that such a list could designate a separate set of
>>>>>"personality" settings for each opponent in the list.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is planned.  IE it already has a list that can be used to direct a specific
>>>>named opponent to a particular "books.bin" type file.  IE I could create a
>>>>special start book called "gambit.bin" to be used when playing "hyatt" and do
>>>>this:
>>>>
>>>>list SO +hyatt gambit.bin
>>>>
>>>>This presumes that the "name" command is later used to identify the opponent,
>>>>something that is automatic when running on a chess server.
>>>>
>>>>I plan to modify this command a bit, something like this:
>>>>
>>>>list SP +name book=filename  personality=filename etc.
>>>
>>>That's what I always missed in Chessmaster.
>>>Is it possible that Crafty would take into account the strength
>>>of the opponent? Ie. when playing a lower rated player, it
>>>would switch to a more risky style and vice versa.
>>>
>>>I'm looking forward this new and exciting version of Crafty.
>>>(You'll spare me 50 $ because I won't buy Chessmaster X ;))
>>>
>>>Best wishes
>>>Mihaly
>>
>>In the meantime I checked: Arena sends to Crafty only my name
>>but not my Elo... ((
>>
>>White(1): name Szalai, M.
>>Crafty 19.13 vs Szalai,
>>White(1): time 180500
>>time remaining:  30:05 (crafty).
>>White(1): otim 180500
>>time remaining:  30:05 (opponent).
>
>
>Most of the xboard stuff is stuff I either wrote and sent to Tim Mann, or else
>stuff I asked him to write himself.  IE the "name", "rating" and so forth.  They
>are certainly useful and I use the rating to adjust draw contempt, etc...

That's what I thought of. Thank you.

Mihaly



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