Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 02:11:09 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 02:51:20, Georg Langrath wrote: >I asked for possibilities to slow down hardware in order to weaken the >chessprograms earlier. I got a a couple of kind answers how to weaken programs >in general. But my bad English made my question unclear. > >The point was more of tecnical sort. I meant if it wouldn't be easy for a >programmer to slow down hardware as much as you wanted with programs that goes >in parallell and make blind loops for example. Then you could play with >chessprogram that were more like playing ten years ago and avoid to use a lot of >handicaps in the program itself. It certainly seems possible. One could have an option to spend only a fraction of the allotted time searching and the rest waiting around. I see that this would allow one to play 40/2h (for example) against the handicapped computer more naturally, as it would spend a lot of time thinking but still play weaker chess. Is this what you want? Maybe you could ask whoever wrote your favorite chess program whether he could implement this? Maybe he already has? BTW, I seem to recall that there was a programs called MOSLO that slowed Pentium processors down so one could play old arcade games. But I guess this is not what you want... Pekka
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