Enhancement: Decimal instead of float difficulty number?

[Jonathan Hayward]

I foresee a few blocks of time where I can beat one level most of the time but do not stand up well against the next level: the difficulty levels seem to be "Bench press 5 pounds," then "Bench press 20 pounds," then "Bench press 50 pounds," right up until "Bench press 500 pounds." But if you can bench press 50 pounds but not 100, I don't see how the program will let you try to bench press 55-60 pounds.

At present the difficulty level is a whole number, 1-10.

Is there any way it could be made a decimal number, 0.0-10.0, where 0.0 is "Chess program makes a random legal move", and then 1.0 is the old 1 up to 10.0 as the old 10? In other words besides an easier beginning (the initial difficulty level is pretty respectable for a beginning player to face), it would be nice to have a much finer granularity where you can bump up the difficulty level by as little an increment as you can enter into the input.

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