Author: Georg Langrath
Date: 02:41:15 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 05:11:09, Pekka Karjalainen wrote: >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 Yes, you understood what I meant. As you said, it would be a more natural way of handicapping chess programs. And if it was a program that went parallel with the chessprogram, it could work for all your chessprograms. Georg
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