Re: [Bug-gnubg] more on movefilters

[Jim Segrave]

On Thu 12 Dec 2002 (10:27 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I like the new movefilters, however, I think we should have one set of
> movefilters for hint and another set for analysis (and possibly a third
> set for gnubg's play).
> 
> For example, I might play against gnubg with a rather small search
> space, but analyse the match with a larger search space. It's a bit
> annoying having to change back and forth.
> 
> We may even generalise this to having a set of movefilters for each
> 
> "set .... chequerplay" command.
> 
> I'll implement a GTK widget for setting up movefilters. At first, there
> will just be a number of predefined settings, but eventually the user
> may select her own.
> 
> Any comments on this -- or someone else volunteering to implement this :-)

I think there should be a set of perhaps 4 sets of move-filters, say:

Narrow - considers only a very small set of candiates
Normal - for a reasonable range
Large  - consider lots of candidates
User   - defaults to Normal values, but users can put their own
         choices in

Then the Eval widget should use the current button under Select a
  predefined setting would set the plies and the filter set to be
  used,
The search space setting of the eval could be replaced by a button for
selecting which filter set and the number of plies.

We'd probably want a separate widget for setting up filters, with a
simple way of copying one of the presets to start it up.

I'd love to see it happen, I've had no time recently and was glad to
see you were putting the filter code into FindnSaveBestMove().



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Jim Segrave           address@hidden