Volker Pittlik wrote: Hi!
>> Fernando, is there a special feature in crafty why you >> want to use this engine explicitly or could we find a >> solution using an UCI engine of equivalent features? > > I'm not Fernando but for me it is the "skill" feature > crafty offers. Ah! This one is new to 22.1 upwards it was not present there before. This is a nice option, indeed. Good to know it finally made it into the code. > It's not just moving in a fraction of a second but it's > evaluation is changing the weaker skill level is in use. > To my knowledge there is nothing comparable in any other > engine. A similar option is available in some UCI engines. There the switch in question is called UCI_LimitStrength (this one has to be set to "true") and UCI_Elo where you can set the ELO-level the engine tries to simulate. You can find this switch in many commercial engines, notably Shredder and Rybka. You will also want to note that the free version of Rybka 2.2 which you can download from here http://www.rybkachess.com/index.php?auswahl=Demo+version offers this switch. The only free engine I'm currently aware off to implement this switch, is Homer (http://www.homerchess.com/). Additionally, these switches are exposed to the UCI settings in Scid. Say, you fetch the Rybka 2.2 Demo mentioned above and you want to limit it to 1400 ELO you'd go to UCI settings, hook on Limit ELO Strength and set UCI_Elo to 1400. Then use the engine configured that way for a serious game. I fancy that in the future more and more engines will feature these switches. I've also some ideas how to use this fact in Scid and I'm also working on some implementation of this but I have to admit, it will not make it for V4. (But it's my next large project, now that CC code seems to have matured.) -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
