Author: Evgenii Manev
Date: 07:57:16 04/28/05
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On April 28, 2005 at 07:58:23, F. Huber wrote: >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. hi Franz thank you for your advice - i had suspicions about the name of .exe and the reason of my interrest in using such an old version is just curiosity, nothing more and out of this concrete topic, i think that there exists possibility that older versions of some chess engines are stronger than the new ones look for example at latest Crafty 19.19 - IMO it isn't the strongest Crafty version regards, Geno
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