Author: F. Huber
Date: 08:08:56 04/28/05
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On April 28, 2005 at 10:57:16, Evgenii Manev wrote: >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 Hi Geno, of course you´re right with both, ´curiosity´ and ´maybe stronger´ - at least for _some_ engines ... ;-) I just had a little deeper look into this old Crafty EXE-file, and it seems to be only a DOS-program and furthermore uses an internal DMPI-manager (CWSDPMI) - this may be the reason for the problems with staying in memory after closing the engine, and might also prevent it from running under WinXP at all! So _this_ engine is definitely a little bit _too_ old ... ;-) Best regards, Franz.
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