[gnugo-devel] tweaking strength

[Jeff Brown]

I have read the man page, docs and browsed the source code a bit and have 
not been able to answer my own questions.  I hope that one of you will be 
willing to spend a few minutes to help me out.

I am new to GO and am quickly becoming addicted.  I am running GNU Go 3.2 
on Linux and I am using gGo (ggo.sourceforge.net) as a GUI front end.  The 
gGo UI allows for arbitrary command line arguments to be typed in the ui 
that will eventually be passed on to GNU Go.  I want to add components to 
the ui to tweak the "strength" of the GNU Go player to make it easier for 
the user to do compared to typing in command line params.  There are so 
many depth settings, I am not sure which ones I am after...

--depth
--backfill-depth
--fourlib-depth
--ko-depth
--branch-depth
--backfill2-depth
--superstring-depth
--aa-depth
--level

Can you help me identify which settings make the most sense in terms of 
being able to dumb down GNU Go for beginners and then stiffen GNU Go up as 
the person's skill advances?  Knowing default, minimum and maximum values 
for these would be useful as well.

I appreciate your time.

Thank you.



Jeff


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Jeff Brown
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Senior Software Engineer
Object Computing Inc.
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