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Subject: Re: Latest Carfty Se happenings

Author: Mihaly Szalai

Date: 11:41:24 10/06/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 13:33:19, David Dahlem wrote:

>On October 06, 2004 at 13:10:38, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>On October 06, 2004 at 08:32:20, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>Alpha Pocket Crafty 19.17 SE in alpha stage.  It is playing within a GUI , will
>>>have most ofthe SE features.
>>>
>>>Personality Opening Books -  Plan is now to generate opening books that will
>>>just about every move the "real" personality played in their games for about the
>>>first 20 - 25 moves.   Of course, you have to play what their opponents played
>>>for it to stay in the personality book.  Fischer personality book will be
>>>completed first.  It is very cool. It really give you a sense of the openings
>>>the personality played.
>>
>>Hi Mike
>>
>>Nice idea. Is there not a way to create a personality book that will only play
>>moves made by the human GM, and not play moves made by his opponent? I just
>>checked the crafty docs, and under the intructions for creating books.bin, i
>>found this statement ...
>>
>>"You  can append a "!" to any move you want; Crafty will play the moves marked
>>with "!" if there are any, ignoring  the  rest  of  the book moves found in
>>book.bin."
>>
>>So if all the moves made by the GM were marked with "!" in the pgn used to
>>create books.bin, couldn't this be used to create a book that "only" made moves
>>by the human GM?
>>
>>Regards
>>Dave
>
>After reading further in the crafty docs, i also saw this statement ...
>
>"You can enter as many "!" as you want. On the other hand, if a move is appended
>with a "?" Crafty will never play it. Moves in books.bin that are not flagged
>with either "!" or "?" don't have any influence on Crafty's choice at all."
>
>So it seems to be possible to mark the opponents moves with a "?" so they will
>never be played. If a quick and easy way to mark moves in this manner could be
>found, a personality book can be created that "truly" plays like a human GM. :-)
>
>Regards
>Dave

Hi Dave,

see my PGN files with flagged moves: http://misimatt.freeweb.hu/csebook.zip

Mihaly



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