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  out += "[Score Margin = 25]\r\n"
  out += "[Depth Margin = 0]\r\n"
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<h3>Personality creator for ProDeo 2.2 and 2.3 after the idea of <a href="http://www.pkoziol.cal24.pl/rodent/tuner.htm">Rodent</a> 

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Move your mouse over the <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc">yellow elements</span> for a short description.
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On save contents will be stored as PRODEO.ENG in your download folder.</h3>


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<p><b>Main settings</b></p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the value of a Pawn. Example: a value of 105 will increase the value of a pawn with 5%, a value of 90 will derease the value of a pawn with 10%">Pawn Value</span><input type="number" id="Pawn value" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> Knight value<input type="number" id="Knight value" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> Bishop value<input type="number" id="Bishop value" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> Rook value<input type="number" id="Rook value" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> Queen value<input type="number" id="Queen value" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the King evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 75-150.">King Safety</span><input type="number" id="King Safety" value="105" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Mobility evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 40-100.">Mobility</span><input type="number" id="Mobility" value="55" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Minimum Knight Mobility evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-150.">Min. Knight Mobility</span><input type="number" id="Minimum Knight Mobility" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Minimum Bishop Mobility evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-150.">Min. Bishop Mobility</span><input type="number" id="Minimum Bishop Mobility" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Advantage Rule evaluation. It calculates the number of advantages for each color [King evaluation, Mobility, Passed Pawns, Bishop Pair etc.] and depending on a majority it adds an extra bonus. Values that make sense are in the range of 0-200.">Advantage</span><input type="number" id="Advantage" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Bishop Pair evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-150.">Bishop Pair</span><input type="number" id="Bishop_Pair" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Bad Bishops. Bishops are considered bad if they look against their own pawns too much. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200.">Bad Bishop</span><input type="number" id="Bad Bishop" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Opposite Bishop evaluation in Bishop Endings. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200.">Unequal Bishops</span><input type="number" id="Unequal Bishops" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the bonus of the Bishop Psir in cases the Bishop Pair is untouchable. A bishop pair is considered untouchable if both bishops can't be captured by opponent Bishops or Knights. Values that make sense are in the range of 100-300.">Bishop Pair Extra</span><input type="number" id="Bishop Pair Extra" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Pinned Pieces. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-150.">Pins</span><input type="number" id="Pins" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p><b>Pawns</b></p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the overall evaluation of the Pawn Structure. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200. [Pawn Structure] can be splited into [Weak Pawns] and [Pawn Formation] which you can tune seperately with the below 2 parameters.">Pawn Structure</span><input type="number" id="Pawn Structure" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Weak Pawns. A pawn is considered weak when it is isolated or backwards. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200.">Weak Pawns</span><input type="number" id="Weak Pawns" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Pawn Formations. Connected pawns get a bonus depending on the square they are on. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200.">Pawn Formation</span><input type="number" id="Pawn Formation" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of building pressure on weak pawns. Values that make sense are in the range of 0-200.">Pawn Pressure</span><input type="number" id="Pawn Pressure" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of double pawns. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-200.">Double Pawns</span><input type="number" id="Double Pawns" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Double Isolated Pawns. An typical example of a double isolated pawn happens after a BxN exchange on c3 leaving white with pawns on c2 and c3 with no pawns on the b and d files. A penalty for white is given and another higher penalty if the c2 and c3 pawns are on an open file and thus likely can be attacked more easily. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-100.">Double Isolated Pawns</span><input type="number" id="Double Isolated Pawns" value="75" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Passed Pawn for the middle game and endgame. Values that make sense are in the range of 75-125.">
Passed Pawns</span><input type="number" id="Passed Pawns" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of passed pawns specifically for the middle game. Values that make sense are in the range of 100-150.">
Passed Pawn MIDG</span><input type="number" id="Passed Pawns MIDG" value="125" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of passed pawns that are supported by its own King in the endgame. Values that make sense are in the range of 75-150.">
Passed Pawn Tropism (1)</span><input type="number" id="Passed Pawn Tropism (1)" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation how far the King is away from the opponent dangerous passed pawns in the endgame. Values that make sense are in the range of 150-250.">
Passed Pawn Tropism (2)</span><input type="number" id="Passed Pawn Tropism (2)" value="200" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the TEMPO (or RIGHT-TO-MOVE) evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 0-200 in steps of 25, so 0|25|50|75|100|125|150|175|200 etc. This function is extremely sensitive to the search depth, for instance a value of [200] vesus [0] might result in a much faster search (up to 2 times faster) but the downside is missing important moves in the search. It's hard to find the optimal value.">
Tempo</span><input type="number" id="Right to Move" value="50" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the evaluation of Knight outposts. Values that make sense are in the range of 75-175.">
Knight Outpost</span><input type="number" id="Strong Squares" value="150" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> 
<span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease evaluation of Rooks on the 7th rank in the endgame in the case the opponent king is on the 8th rank. Values that make sense are in the range of 25-75. Note these are binary values. To transfer the default setting of [50] to decimal divide by 2.5 thus the decimal value is a bonus of 0.20">
Rook 7th Rank (1)</span>
<input type="number" id="Rook 7th Rank (1)" value="50" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> 
<span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="A second bonus is given if there are no opponents pawns on the 7th rank so the black king is unable to escape from the 8th rank. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-100 and are also in binary format, meaning the default setting of [75] in decimal is 75 / 2.5 = 0.37">
Rook 7th Rank (2)</span>
<input type="number" id="Rook 7th Rank (2)" value="75" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the margin of Lazy Evaluation. A chess program spends most of its time on evaluating positions, for a program like ProDeo this is about in the 80% range. Lazy Eval is a common speed-up trick, instead of doing an expensive complete evaluation it quicky estimates (gambles) the score. Values that make sense are in the range of 100-500. Changing for instance the default value of [125] to [500] will result in a slower search but qualitative better moves. Like TEMPO it's a hard to guess trade off.">
Lazy Eval</span><input type="number" id="Chess Knowledge" value="125" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

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Rook 7th Rank (1)
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Increase or decrease evaluation of Rooks on the 7th rank in the endgame in the case the opponent king is on the 8th rank. Values that make sense are in the range of 25-75. Note these are binary values. To transfer the default setting of [50] to decimal divide by 2.5 thus the decimal value is a bonus of 0.20.
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Rook 7th Rank (2)
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A second bonus is given if there are no opponents pawns on the 7th rank so the black king is unable to escape from the 8th rank. Values that make sense are in the range of 50-100 and are also in binary format, meaning the default setting of [75] in decimal is 75 / 2.5 = 0.37.
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Lazy Eval
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<p><b>Other</b></p>
<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the Attractiveness evaluation. Values that make sense are in the range of 80-120. Attractiveness has a great influence on the playing style, for instance a value of [50] will change the progran into a dull chess player while a value of [200] or higher it becomes an attacking monster. However such values have a negative influence on the overall playing strength.">Attractiveness</span><input type="number" id="Attractiveness" value="101" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Confusion is an improved version of the ANTI-ANAND algorithm we used playing Vishy Anand back in 1998. The algorithm tries to complicate the position for tactical shots and then profit from the created chaos by outsearchng the human opponent. The default value of [100] means the algorithm is inactive, other values than [100] will activate the slgorithm. Values that make sense are in the range of 25-50-75-125-150. A value of [500] will make wild sacrifices and are fun to watch but bad for the overall playing strength.">
Confusion</span><input type="number" id="Attacking" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Has currently no function, will be fixed in the next version.">
Strength of Play</span><input type="number" id="Strength of Play" value="100" min="0" max="100" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="This parameter hardly makes sense any longer after the discovery (Don Beal), first successful use (Frans Morsch) and general use (1995) of Null-Move. There is still some influence left in late endgame positions like Pawn, Knight, Bishop and Rook endings. Advice: ignore. It's kept to keep the programmer happy for nostalgic reasons, basically it needs a rewrite.">
Selective Search</span><input type="number" id="Selective Search" value="100" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Same as the above Selective Search parameter, advice: ignore.">
Search Safety</span><input type="number" id="Search Safety" value="200" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the timers of the Time Control. If you think ProDeo plays too fast increase the value and in reverse decrease. Values that make sense are in the range of 80-120.">
Time Control</span><input type="number" id="Time Control" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the timers for playing Blitz (Sudden Death) Time Controls. If you think ProDeo plays too fast increase the value and in reverse decrease. REMARK - the default value of [120] is definitely much to low as ProDeo plays much too fast. A good starting point would be to increase the value to [150].">
Blitz Time Control</span><input type="number" id="Blitz Time Control" value="120" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Increase or decrease the value of the ProDeo's Queen. The default value of [101] makes ProDeo's Queen 1% (0.09) more worth than the Queen of the opponent. The effect is that ProDeo will avoid a Queen exchange at the cost of 0.09 centipawns. In reverse a value of [99] will have the effect ProDeo will exchange Queens quickly, wise or not. Values that make sense are 99 | 100 and 101.">
My Queen</span><input type="number" id="My Queen" value="101" min="95" max="105" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="While calculating ProDeo modifies its Piece-Square-Tables with information gathered from the search which are tuned with this parameter. Since this technique was introduced in ProDeo 2.2 there is yet not experience enough to advice a reasonable range of 2 values.">
PST Divide</span><input type="number" id="PST Divide" value="200" min="0" max="500" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="See PST DIVIDE above. Also here counts that there is yet not experience enough to give an advice.">
PST Replace</span>
<select id="PST" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>
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<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="LMR Scaling is extremely sensitive. A value of [75%] will prune the Search too much, the maximum value of [100%] even worse. It's best to keep the default value of [50%], buy hey, it's your party. LMR Scaling is new since ProDeo 2.2 and needs some further development in regard to flexibility.">
LMR scaling</span><input type="number" id="LMR" value="50" min="0" max="100" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="The introduction of a HISTORY-TABLE in ProDeo is also quite new and also here counts there is yet not experience enough for a sound advice. However it's likely there is little harm using [10] or even [12], the maximum and it's not unlikely higher values in the range of 9-12 will produce some extra elo points.">
History Depth</span><input type="number" id="History Depth" value="8" min="6" max="12" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="With this parameter you can define the maximum number of Singular Check Extensions allowed while calculating. A move is considered singular when in-check while having only one legal move and then is extended. Singular Checks are extremely powerful in tactical positions when there are a lot of checks, just try the maximum value [7] and see what happens. Values that make sense are [0] [1] [2] and perhaps [3] as well.">
Singular Checks</span><input type="number" id="Singular Checks" value="1" min="0" max="7" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="The number of checks allowed during Quiescence Search (QS). Values that make sense are [1] [2] and perhaps [3].">
QS Checks Depth</span><input type="number" id="Checks Depth" value="2" min="0" max="7" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Futility Pruning is also a known program technique to reduce the size of the Search. Values higher than the default setting [100] will result in a more stable (but slower) search while values lower than [100] the search will run faster but chances on mistakes will increase. Values that make sense are in the range of 75-125.">
Futility Pruning</span><input type="number" id="Futility" value="100" min="0" max="200" style="float:right";> </p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Restrict the depth of Futility Pruning. Vslues that make sense are in the range of 4-8, the maximum is [16].">
Futility Depth</span><input type="number" id="Futility Depth" value="6" min="0" max="16" style="float:right";> </p>
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<p><b>Switches</b></p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Check Extensions are powerful and no chess program can do without them. However the downside of check extensions is that they slow down the search. Hence some sort of compromise must be made. ProDeo offers 5 different ways of handling check extensions from [low-use] [moderate-use] [normal-use] [strong-use] to [all] in which case all checks will be extended. While the current default setting is [low] all the other options are also good and don't differ much in elo. In the end it's a matter of taste.">
Check Extensions</span>
<select id="Check" style="float:right";>
  <option value="low" selected="selected">low</option>
  <option value="moderate">moderate</option>
  <option value="normal">normal</option>
  <option value="strong">strong</option>
  <option value="all">all</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="As with Check Extensions a variaty of options is offered. From [high-use] [normal-use] [low use] to [skip] in which case no extensions will be done.">
Recapture Extensions</span>
<select id="TWS" style="float:right";>
  <option value="normal" selected="selected">normal</option>
  <option value="moderate">high</option>
  <option value="low">low</option>
  <option value="skip">skip</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Limit the maximum number of Recapture Extensions. Values that make sense are [1] [2] and [3].">
Recapture Maximum</span>
<select id="TWSMAX" style="float:right";>
  <option value="2" selected="selected">2</option>
  <option value="0">0</option>
  <option value="1">1</option>
  <option value="3">3</option>
  <option value="4">4</option>
  <option value="5">5</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Null-Move is the standard search algorithm, it was discoveed by Don Beal (mid 80's), its first successful use by Frans Morsch (early 90's) and in general use since 1995. In the dark age before Null-Move chess programs used all sorts of colorful, juicy, creative BUT self invented search algorithms. With the [NORMAL] setting one goes back to the 80's and 90's. The option is still kept for detecting zugzwang positions much earlier.">
Search Technique</span>
<select id="SEARCH" style="float:right";>
  <option value="NullMove" selected="selected">NullMove</option>
  <option value="Normal">Normal</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="A draw is a draw and its score is 0.00 and that's true. However playing a much stronger opponent one (perhaps) would be happy to get away with a draw. And here comes the Draw Contempt score into play. When (for instance) set to [1.00] every draw situation will be rewarded with 1.00 and if the program (for instance) can force a draw by repetition while having a relative good position (of say 0.75) it will take the draw instead. The reverse is also true, playing a much weaker opponent you don't want to draw use [-0.50] or maybe even [-1.00] to avoid draws.">
Draw Contempt Evaluation</span>
<select id="DRAW" style="float:right";>
  <option value="0.00" selected="selected">0.00</option>
  <option value="0.25">0.25</option>
  <option value="0.50">0.50</option>
  <option value="1.00">1.00</option>
  <option value="1.50">1.50</option>
  <option value="-0.25">-0.25</option>
  <option value="-0.50">-0.50</option>
  <option value="-1.00">-1.00</option>  
</select>
</p>

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<p><b>Active MISC switches</b></p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Avoid static reductions at root moves. In use since ProDeo 2.2">
Misc-07</span>
<select id="M7" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Small LMR improvement, in use since ProDeo 2.2">
Misc-08</span>
<select id="M8" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="Small search improvement in late endgame situations, in use since ProDeo 2.2">
Misc-09</span>
<select id="M9" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="In use since the 90's but hardly relevant nowadays. It limits the number of extensions to the iteration depth, meaning, when at iteration 8 the maximum of extensions is 8. It was useful back then but when the new norm became reductions instead of extensions the parameter lost its significance. Note that REBEL 8.0 was the first engine to implement static reductions throughout the whole tree succesfully.">
Misc-14</span>
<select id="M14" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>

<p class="mono"> <span STYLE="background-color: #ffffcc" title="One of those extensions that is still useful. If (during search) an equal capture [NxN] [BxN] [BxB] [RxR] or [QxQ] drops the game into the late endgame extend.">
Misc-26</span>
<select id="M26" style="float:right";>
  <option value="on" selected="selected">on</option>
  <option value="off">off</option>
</select>
</p>

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