RE: [Bug-gnubg] External interface

[Ian Shaw]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Hauser Dietmar
> 
> I've been playing around with the external interface of gnubg 
> and it works well so far.
> However, it seems the settings for the AI difficulty done via 
> the gui does not affect the playing strength of the at all 
> (when using the external interface).
> 
> Is this true?
> If yes, is there a way to tone down the strength of the AI?
> 

Are you asking whether gnubg can be made to play weaker than the current
"beginner" setting? 

You can adjust the noise setting to a larger value than 0.06, which is
the beginner setting.

The basic level of play is "expert". Lower playing settings are achieved
by randomly adding the "noise" value to the evaluations, making gnubg
sometimes randomly think an inferior play is best.

This works to an extent, but the errors it makes are random, rather than
the systematic errors a human beginner might make. Therefore it is not a
good approximation of poor human play.

Hope this helps.

-- Ian