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

Author: Terry Presgrove

Date: 06:06:37 07/27/99

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On July 27, 1999 at 07:37:32, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>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

 Apparently you haven't been keeping up with Crafty in recent months.
 I suggest you log on ICC and take a peek. I watched crafty win three
 in row last night against Shredder v.3. Also the fact is that top programs
 are handily beating 99.999% of all chess players right now so for most of us
 it is important to dumb down the program because we are simply outmatched.

 TP



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