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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.4T

Author: Alois Ganter

Date: 22:54:06 02/04/99

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What time control are you playing? I only manage four 60 min games against cb
flagship fritz32 and 16.4T got +2 -2 =0. The four men tablebases look ok on my
computer - I test with position KQ - KR and 16.4T immediately displays mate
value. You have to put the tablebase directory in engines.ini ([tablebases]
path=)

Alois



On February 04, 1999 at 23:05:04, James T. Walker wrote:

>On February 04, 1999 at 22:05:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 1999 at 19:55:03, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>Chessbase has posted Crafty 16.4T.  It is supposed to be Crafty 16.4 with
>>>Tabelbase support.  Can anyone tell me how to tell Crafty where to find the
>>>tablebase files?  I tried putting the info in the engines.ini file but Crafty
>>>still can not find the TB directory.  I have the Nalimov Tabelbases in the
>>>directory \chessbase\engines\TB.  Also Crafty 16.4T (without tabelbases) seems
>>>to be worse than 16.3 which is about 100 points worse than 16.2 !  These are the
>>>Fritz GUI versions found at Chessbase.
>>>Jim Walker
>>
>>
>>I'm not sure what you are testing, but _no_ 16.x version is 100 points better
>>or worse than another.  That is a _serious_ difference, which is lacking in
>>these.
>>
>>By my testing, 16.4 is quite a bit better than prior versions, based on a _lot_
>>of engine vs engine games on the chess servers...
>
>Hello Bob,
>Have you tested the versions coming from Chessbase/Germany?  What do you call a
>program that lost by 41-9 to Fritz 5.32?  What do you call a program that lost
>to Nimzo99 by 25-7?  Chessbase calls them Crafty 16.3 and Crafty 16.4T.  I've
>never got that kind of results from Crafty 16.2 although it still lost.  These
>are the versions of Crafty that are coming out of Chessbase.  Of course Crafty
>is playing without it's opening book.  I usually give it the Fritz 5.32 book.
>It is also playing without tabelbases.  That's why I'm trying to get the 16.4T
>version to use it's tablebases.  It has no book learning or hash learning
>either.  What do you think all these features add up to in elo points?  Without
>them it's getting crushed.  I'm playing Crafty on the PII because it doesn't
>seem to like the AMD K6-2.  The hardware is fairly close, maybe a 10% advantage
>for the K6-2.
>Regards,
>Jim Walker



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