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Subject: Re: Crafty 9.31 and Arena

Author: F. Huber

Date: 04:58:23 04/28/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 07:32:26, F. Huber wrote:

>On April 27, 2005 at 19:03:48, Evgenii Manev wrote:
>
>>is there a way to set up Crafty 9.31 to play under Arena?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Geno
>
>What´s your problem?
>
>I´ve just downloaded this old version and installed it under Arena,
>and it works perfectly (as WinBoard engine) -
>so I don´t know where you have troubles ... (?)
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Well, in the meantime I´ve found two problems with Crafty 9.31:

The first is the name ´Crafty 9.31.exe´, which prohibites a correct start of
the engine - at least under Arena!
But IMO it´s really crazy to use spaces or dots within a program name (under
Windows), and so I automatically renamed this file to ´Crafty.exe´ before
installing it - that´s why I had no problems.
So simply rename it to e.g. ´Crafty931.exe´ or ´Crafty_931.exe´, and you´ll
have no problems to start and run it under Arena.

The second (and more serious) problem I´ve found is, that this Crafty version
stays in memory after closing the engine (or even closing Arena) -
so you´ll have to remove it (Winoldap) manually by the TaskManager! :-(

But I don´t really understand, why anyone would like to use such an old
Crafty version, when we already have better (and stable) versions 19.xx!?

Regards,
Franz.



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