Author: John Coffey
Date: 11:23:10 01/16/99
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I think that programs would benefit from playing different levels on the internet and looking at the ratings obtained there. With recent programs there has been too much emphasis on using ratings as a method of determining the level of difficulty. This is a good marketing feature, but programs have shown an inability to predict ratings with any accuracy. I think that some programs should consider going back to having "levels of difficulty." These should start at such a easy setting that any player, no matter how bad, could find an equal opponent. For example, level 1 might only look at 30 possibilities. Level 2 might look at 60. Level 3 would look at 120 and it would continue to increase like this with each increase in level. This idea would make for a very interesting chess program. John Coffey
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