Greetings!

I'm learning to play chess again after many years and would like to use
the "personality" functionality built into crafty (I just built 20.1 on
my Linux box). The source code mentions loading a crafty.cpf file, and
I've seen references on this group to particular personalities they
have available, but I don't see these (or this file) in the code I
downloaded. I understand that the "selective", "extension" and
"evaluation" commands can be used to build a personality which can be
saved, but not being familiar with how any of these things would affect
the engine, might someone have a personality file I could use?

Or suggestions for some values to try?

Thanks very much,

Chris
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Chris Swingley
University of Alaska Fairbanks

On 2005-12-16, cswingle wrote:

Hi!

I'm learning to play chess again after many years and would like to use
the "personality" functionality built into crafty (I just built 20.1 on
my Linux box). The source code mentions loading a crafty.cpf file, and
I've seen references on this group to particular personalities they
have available, but I don't see these (or this file) in the code I
downloaded. I understand that the "selective", "extension" and
"evaluation" commands can be used to build a personality which can be
saved, but not being familiar with how any of these things would affect
the engine, might someone have a personality file I could use?

If you once figured out, please let me know about. Maybe
write up some short documentation about it, as it is pretty
thin there (beyond reading crafty's source code.) The only
thing I was able to do till now is write a valid cpf-file by
the save command crafty provides for these, but I'd be
interested in understanding a bit more how it works.
Acutally it should be possible to have something like
Shredder's "Limit Strength" at disposal with these
personalities.

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Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner