RE: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-10 Thread Ian Shaw
Douglas Zare wrote on 07 July 2006 22:32 I've contributed many ideas to gnubg, but I'd like to ask that you not start working on this idea of mine before the end of 2006. I'm pretty confident that this idea was not in the air. I think this is a reasonable request, and I don't think it

RE: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-10 Thread Massimiliano . Maini
Christian Athon wrote : Yes, and likely zbot will have an advantage here, since from what I have read, the zbot net is developed to be more human like, that is, you can ask questions do you understand this position, is it volatile... That's an exemple of the fact that different people may have

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-10 Thread Douglas Zare
On 7/9/06, Joseph Heled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be wrong but offhand I can't remember any of Douglas ideas that were eventually implemented in gnubg. That may be because, as I complained before, people have done a poor job of attributing ideas. See

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-10 Thread Joseph Heled
On 7/11/06, Douglas Zare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/9/06, Joseph Heled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be wrong but offhand I can't remember any of Douglas ideas that were eventually implemented in gnubg. Well, I am sorry I was not more precise. I meant of course implemented by me, since

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-09 Thread Rich Heimlich
Joseph Heled wrote: Personally, I think bot personality is very hard to pull off, and I would be very much interested to finally see zbot in action, even without any personality. That's where my post was coming in. For decades now the industry has worked to bring personalities to these

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Douglas Zare
On 7/7/06, Jonathan Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people think about altering gnubg play depending on some kind of personality setting? Ps. I think I saw this in a comment about the upcoming zbot backgammon program. Offhand, it sounds hard to make it work well. :) I think I've done

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Christian Anthon
On 7/7/06, Jonathan Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people think about altering gnubg play depending on some kind of personality setting? gnubg having a personality is secondary to me, but I would like to have some knobs to turn, both for chequer play and cube evaluations. What I can

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Douglas Zare
On 7/7/06, Douglas Zare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Jonathan Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people think about altering gnubg play depending on some kind of personality setting? Ps. I think I saw this in a comment about the upcoming zbot backgammon program. Offhand, it

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Christian Anthon
On 7/7/06, Douglas Zare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've contributed many ideas to gnubg, but I'd like to ask that you not start working on this idea of mine before the end of 2006. I'm pretty confident that this idea was not in the air. Well, to quote from zbots homepage, Welcome to the home

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Douglas Zare
On 7/7/06, Christian Anthon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/06, Douglas Zare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've contributed many ideas to gnubg, but I'd like to ask that you not start working on this idea of mine before the end of 2006. I'm pretty confident that this idea was not in the air.

Re: [Bug-gnubg] gnubg personalities

2006-07-07 Thread Jonathan Kinsey
Douglas Zare wrote: I'd like to ask that you not start working on this idea of mine before the end of 2006. I'm pretty confident that this idea was not in the air. That's entirely wrong - I've thought of exactly this idea for a long time before I even started playing backgammon! i.e. How to