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Subject: Re: Latest Carfty Se happenings

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 12:53:21 10/06/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 14:41:24, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>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

Hi Mihaly

That's great. I think i'll create a Fischer book using your pgn with flagged
moves. After further thought, i realize flagging the opponent moves with a "?"
will not work, since opponents sometimes play the same moves. :-)

Regards
Dave



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