Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 11:24:46 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 13:54:29, Georg Langrath wrote: >Sometimes it is a little hard for me to win over the modern chessprograms >without handicaps :). Isn't i possible to make a program that slows down the >effective hardware speed? Then the programs could play with more reasonable >strengths without more artificial handicaps in the program itself. > You can get the effect you are looking for by two other methods. First, you can just set many programs to take a given amount of time per move. Arasan for Windows allows this, as one example. With a few secs per move it will not play that strong, especially if you do take longer to think on your turns. Secondly, many programs allow you to set the maximum ply they will search the position to instead of time controls. Put a small number here and they will not play that well. Put one ply and they will play like a 3-year old beginner... Piece odds games would be nice for practising tactics at the best settings for the program, if you can't bear getting beat in an even game too. Hope this helps, there should be programs that do what you ask for, but these solutions seem simpler to me. Best, Pekka Karjalainen
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