Author: blass uri
Date: 09:49:31 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 12:32:49, blass uri wrote: >I cannot change the contempt parameter of Junior,Hiarcs or crafty >to more than 200(2 pawns). > >If I try to change it to 300 the interface changes it back to 200. > >I consider it as a bug because I see no advantage of it. >If they assume people usually do not mean to bigger values than 200 then they >can print a warning when someone try to change it to more than 200 but not >prevent me from doing it. > >I think the limit should be 9999 and in this case it should show evaluation of >draw only if it can prove that there is at least a draw. 1)correction in this case it should show evaluation of draw if they can prove that there is at most a draw. If the contempt is -9999 they should show evaluation of draw if there is at least a draw. 2)I know that with Genius3 the situation is even worse and I can change the contempt factor of Genius3 only to 0.25x pawns when x=-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3 and I think that more programs suffer from this bug. Uri
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