Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 10:49:07 11/10/04
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On November 10, 2004 at 12:41:13, Mark R. Anderson wrote: >On November 10, 2004 at 10:41:34, Mihaly Szalai wrote: > >>Bonjour Christophe! >> >>I've noticed that the guest.exe file is not what you described on your >>site (and what you sent me one and a half years ago) where you can specify >>the input and the output files. >> >>I use guest generating random Crafty personalities. Great fun! >> >>Thanks >>Mihaly > >Mihaly, > >Yes, that does sound like fun. How is it done? Does it work well? > >I have long wanted to have a "randomizer" feature on my beloved programs (Fritz, >Hiarcs, Junior, etc). That would be huge fun ... when you sat down to play, you >would not know if you were facing a novice, an expert, or a Grandmaster. It >would be truly unknown. Not just in terms of strength, but also amount of book >knowledge or styles of play. You could be facing a careful Karpov or Petrosian >sytle of play, or a wild Tal or Nezhmetdinov style. You would never know what >to expect ... that would be great fun. Then, afterward, you could go look and >see "who" you played, and analyze the game. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? > >I think Chessmaster has a similar feature, but I am not a big Chessmaster fan. >Hopefully, this feature could be added. Deep Sjeng has good capabilities to >make interesting and fun personalities to play against, but I know exactly "who" >I am facing. That's not the same. Come on, Chessbase and Lokasoft ... build in >a radomizer capability! Facing a totally unknown opponent would be like a >pickup game at the park. Fun! > >Mark Anderson Download 'Guest' from Christhope's site (see in the Deep Sjeng section) and try it yourself. You can play fun games with Crafty SE too with the crafty ranper or the crafty jekyll command. Mihaly
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