Beaches playing random moves

[Olivier Deville]

In its first tourney game vs Parrot in ChessWar VII E, Beaches gave a piece away for no reason just after the opening.

I have found in the debug this amazing line :

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37656<1:Surprise! Random move!

Not very productive

Is this issue known ?

Olivier

[Igor Gorelikov]

Hi Olivier,

You may set three parameters for random move in Beaches.rc:

# totRand=maximum number of "random" moves in opening
# probRand=1000*prob(given move will be random)
# qualRand=how much worse than the best move can random be (in centipawns)?

I have the third default parameter set to

qualRand 20

It means the difference in 0.2 pawn. So it should not through away pieces (even pawns!).

If there are problems you may set totRand to 0 (no random moves), or qualRand to less value.

Regards,
Igor

[Olivier Deville]

Hi Igor

Many thanks for the hint. I just checked the rc file, and I have :

totRand 2
probRand 200
qualRand 20

So such blunders should not happen. Quite strange !

Olivier