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Re: Idea of extending gnuchess with interface for an (emotional) avatar!


From: Simon Waters
Subject: Re: Idea of extending gnuchess with interface for an (emotional) avatar!
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:02:00 +0100
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Christian Becker wrote:
>
> My concern (idea):
> I want to extend the capabilities of MAX (Multimodal Assembly eXpert) to
> be able to play chess. Further more, I want to feed my emotional system
> with the actual appraisal-values of gnuchess!
>
> My Questions:
> Is there anybody else out there working on such an idea???

I think some talkbots have played chess, and one or two dedicated chess
 programs have tried to animate characters according to the position, or
worse computerised sarcasm or quips.

I do have some references on automatic annotation of chess games, if you
are that keen, but most of it is pretty obvious, and not deep AI.

> Wouldn't that be a "nice-to-have"?

Yes, but we tend to grovel around at the bottom of the chess pile with
text ony interfaces, and making the right moves, and leave the fun stuff
to others ;-)

> What about a standard interface for that purpose?

The Winboard interface gives a standard method of talking to Chess
engines, the "post" facility will give you a continual stream of the
current best line, with evaluation, and for GNU Chess also information
on cut-offs.

You can also use "show eval" at the current position, or after stepping
through the best line as given above.

The interface is documented in source tar ball of Tim Mann's Xboard. It
uses pipes with unbuffered I/O so it can readily be wired in with Perl
or simiar (I've done perl Open2 with "ping/pong" to estabish when a
command is complete, it works pretty well). www.tim-mann.org


On the other hand Kasparov looks pained whether he is winning or losing,
you need to go back to Fischer or Alekhine to find champs who were
truely so happy (and confident of their assessments) when they were
winning to start whistling or humming.

American civil war tunes (http://www.civilwarhome.com/poemssongs.htm)
were popular with the leading players* when they were winning, although
it is of course extremely bad sportsmanship and probably against FIDE
tournament rules to hum at the chess board.

Human players also "leak" information about their plans as their
eyeballs track over the most important squares, repeatedly, as they think.

 Simon

* Even those born in Russia.
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