Re: [gnugo-devel] tweaking strength

[Evan Berggren Daniel]

The only supported way to change the strength is by varying the level
(--level).  The others change specific pieces of the engine, with defaults
deternmined by the level.

The level defaults to 10, and can be varied from 1 to 10.

In general the others should be left alone.

Hope this helps, and enjoy playing with GNU Go!

Evan Daniel

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jeff Brown wrote:

> I have read the man page, docs and browsed the source code a bit and have
> not been able to answer my own questions.  I hope that one of you will be
> willing to spend a few minutes to help me out.
>
> I am new to GO and am quickly becoming addicted.  I am running GNU Go 3.2
> on Linux and I am using gGo (ggo.sourceforge.net) as a GUI front end.  The
> gGo UI allows for arbitrary command line arguments to be typed in the ui
> that will eventually be passed on to GNU Go.  I want to add components to
> the ui to tweak the "strength" of the GNU Go player to make it easier for
> the user to do compared to typing in command line params.  There are so
> many depth settings, I am not sure which ones I am after...
>
> --depth
> --backfill-depth
> --fourlib-depth
> --ko-depth
> --branch-depth
> --backfill2-depth
> --superstring-depth
> --aa-depth
> --level
>
> Can you help me identify which settings make the most sense in terms of
> being able to dumb down GNU Go for beginners and then stiffen GNU Go up as
> the person's skill advances?  Knowing default, minimum and maximum values
> for these would be useful as well.
>
> I appreciate your time.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
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> Object Computing Inc.
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