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Subject: Re: randomness in chessmaster6000 is not real

Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo

Date: 23:56:51 12/23/98

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On December 24, 1998 at 01:33:01, blass uri wrote:

>
>On December 24, 1998 at 00:53:05, Lanny DiBartolomeo wrote:
>
>>On December 23, 1998 at 23:53:48, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On December 23, 1998 at 21:41:28, Lanny DiBartolomeo wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 23, 1998 at 02:56:10, blass uri wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I found that the clyde personality is not playing random moves.
>>>>>
>>>>>I can beat it in the same way twice
>>>>>It always plays with black the game that begins 1.e4 b6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Bh3
>>>>>I expects it do do stupid mistakes because it is a very weak personality but I
>>>>>expected it not to play the same every time because the parameter of randomness
>>>>>is 45
>>>>>
>>>>>Uri
>>>>Mindscape needs to implement a learning feature in this program for sure.
>>>
>>>You are right but this is not the point.
>>>
>>>I do not want the weak personalities to improve
>>>The point is that it is not playing random moves so I do not understand why the
>>>randomness is 45.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>I did the same moves and every now and then it varies with g5 the moves are
>>e4 b6 d4 g5  not too random though, since it always plays b6 as a reply to e4
>>even when random is set to 100 it still plays b6. I think it is because it is
>>set to think 1 move deep this may be why  random may not work that well(just a
>>guess)
>
>I do not understand it
>I do not see what is the problem to do different moves than 1...b6
>I think that you cannot tell the computer to choose a real random number(the
>function of choosing random numbers is repeating the same numbers after 2^24
>numbers but the move can be a function of the time that you play  so it will be
>seen as a random move.
>
>If they say randomness=45 then I expect them to choose a random move not from
>all the moves but only from moves with close evaluation function or to do some
>randomness in the evaluation function but not fixed randomness because then it
>is not randomness.
>
>Uri
>
>Uri
I totally agree with you,
    Mabey it is another bug then.



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