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Subject: Re: Crafty and adjustable rating levels....How?

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 04:37:32 07/27/99

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On July 27, 1999 at 02:29:03, Gregor Overney wrote:

>Using CM6000, I enjoy playing against different levels. What is the best way to
>implement this "level control" feature into a Chess program? Truncation of
>search depth? Adding randomness to score evaluation?
>
>If not too time consuming, it would be great to add such a "level control" to
>Crafty? - Or, do you know about settings for Crafty that make it play like an
>1800, 1900, 2000, and/or 2200 USCF rated player?
>
>Gregor

Why making Crafy weaker??
It has been very well known to the public that Crafty *is* weak.
That has been mentioned from the early days of Crafty, version 6.4 comes to
mind. Each and every expert has told us that Crafty is weak, ah well Bruce
Moreland is an exeption, but he is a programmer so his opinion may be biased :-)

Seriously, current work is and should be making the programs stronger - *not*
weaker. Weak players should learn more about chess then they will have more
fun playing a strong engine.

Kind regards
Bernhard



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