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Subject: Re: some help configuring crafty

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 10:56:30 01/26/04

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On January 26, 2004 at 11:43:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 26, 2004 at 11:17:56, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>1. How do I turn off position learning? I want to see a wide variety of games,
>>not Crafty winning the same game over and over again.  I tried adding "learning
>>off" to the .craftyrc file (with correct syntax, which I forget now), but that
>>doesn't seem to work.
>
>there are three kinds of learning.  If you really want to turn off _all_
>learning (which I don't recommend if you play matches) learn=0 will do that.
>
>If you want to turn off position learning only, learn=5 will do that.
>
>(comments in option.c give you the choices, this is a 3-bit binary value,
>bit1=book learning, bit2=position learning, bit3=result learning.
>
>
>>
>>2. Do I need to download a special book file because I compiled it -m64?  And
>>what exactly are the files; on the ftp site I see like 5 book* files.
>>
>
>If you are building for a 64 bit machine, you have to rebuild a binary book,
>as the current code does not have a portable binary book file format (that will
>be in version 20).
>
>Download enormous.pgn, start.pgn and startc.pgn
>
>start crafty and type the following three
>commands:
>
>book create enormous.pgn 60 10
>books create start.pgn 60
>bookc create startc.pgn 60
>
>quit
>
>and you are set.  The last two take zero seconds, the first will take some
>time.  5 minutes on my opteron box, 8 minutes on my dual xeon box...
>
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>>3. Can I set the resign threshold of crafty?
>
>resign=9 says resign when score reaches -9 for 5 consecutive moves...
>resign=5 says resign when score reaches -5 for 5 consecutive moves...
>
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>>anthony


thanks.

anthony



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