WB freeware engine / playing style options

[Georg v. Zimmermann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Georg v. Zimmermann am 20. November 1999 11:47:28:
I'm looking for a WB freeware engine with customizable playing style, piece value, position tables etc. much like rebel cent. or chessmaster or nimzo.
I know about Groomit but this is a very slow (not necessairly bad!) engine and I would like to experiment with a a faster searcher like comet or littlegoliath.
Is there one out there ?
Thx,
--Tec

[Volker Pittlik]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Volker Pittlik am 20. November 1999 15:47:48:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: WB freeware engine / playing style options geschrieben von:/posted by: Georg v. Zimmermann am 20. November 1999 11:47:28:

I'm looking for a WB freeware engine with customizable playing style, piece value, position tables etc. much like rebel cent. or chessmaster or nimzo.
I know about Groomit but this is a very slow (not necessairly bad!) engine and I would like to experiment with a a faster searcher like comet or littlegoliath.
Is there one out there ?
Thx,
--Tec

Crafty. See the crafty.doc file for evaluation command.
Beste Gruesse
Volker

[Georg v. Zimmermann]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Georg v. Zimmermann am 20. November 1999 17:06:24:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: WB freeware engine / playing style options geschrieben von:/posted by: Volker Pittlik am 20. November 1999 15:47:48:

I'm looking for a WB freeware engine with customizable playing style, piece value, position tables etc. much like rebel cent. or chessmaster or nimzo.
I know about Groomit but this is a very slow (not necessairly bad!) engine and I would like to experiment with a a faster searcher like comet or littlegoliath.
Is there one out there ?
Thx,
--Tec

Crafty. See the crafty.doc file for evaluation command.
Beste Gruesse
Volker

Not really. You can change agressiveness and such, but not the value of the pieces. Or am I mistaken ?
Thanks for the tip, though.
Gruß, (ist das jetzt ein Englisches oder Deutsches Forum ?
Georg
P.S.
Was ich noch vergessen hatte:
kennt ihr ein Engine das einen recht hohen (möglichst einstellbaren Zufallsfaktor in der Bewertung hat ?

[Volker Pittlik]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Volker Pittlik am 20. November 1999 17:20:56:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: WB freeware engine / playing style options + RANDOM play geschrieben von:/posted by: Georg v. Zimmermann am 20. November 1999 17:06:24:
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Not really. You can change agressiveness and such, but not the value of the pieces. Or am I mistaken ?
Gruß, (ist das jetzt ein Englisches oder Deutsches Forum ?
Georg
P.S.
Was ich noch vergessen hatte:
kennt ihr ein Engine das einen recht hohen (möglichst einstellbaren Zufallsfaktor in der Bewertung hat ?

Ich glaube, da hast Du recht.
...
Ganz nach Wunsch der Benutzer.
Leider nein.
Beste Grüße
Volker

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von:/Posted by: Pete Galati am 20. November 1999 18:53:59:
Als Antwort auf:/As an answer to: Re: WB freeware engine / playing style options geschrieben von:/posted by: Volker Pittlik am 20. November 1999 15:47:48:

I'm looking for a WB freeware engine with customizable playing style, piece value, position tables etc. much like rebel cent. or chessmaster or nimzo.
I know about Groomit but this is a very slow (not necessairly bad!) engine and I would like to experiment with a a faster searcher like comet or littlegoliath.
Is there one out there ?
Thx,
--Tec

Crafty. See the crafty.doc file for evaluation command.
Beste Gruesse
Volker

Although it's not a Winboard engine (too bad, I wish it was!) the program Zzzzz (not Zchess that does work with Winboard) has a dialog box full of piece value adjustments. I would be much happier with Zzzzz if it had an opening book, maybe it will on it's next revision. You can find Zzzzz at Gambitsoft or there is a link to the author's homepage on my site, but I think the one that Gambitsoft has is up to date. Zzzzz is a very good program but not one of the programs that I keep because I don't use it.
Pete

my site