Author: Chris Carson
Date: 06:45:00 07/24/99
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On July 24, 1999 at 07:17:08, hgkjhg wrote: >i downloaded crafty from gambitsoft just now, and it said it was version 9.31, >but in the history file of the new crafty after version 9.29 there is only >version 10.0. Also, this version didn't work with winboard. Where else can i >download old versions of crafty like 9.21 or 9.07? They seem to be doing much >better positionally, tactically, and during the endgame at the louget test, than >the new crafty. I wonder how they would do against the new crafties in the real >games. I heard that the new crafty plays much better on the quad xeons, but if >it takes it 1 minute to find a move on 4 cpu-s, it will take it about an hour to >find the same move on my pentium 100. Is crafty 9.xx optimized for slower >machines? >Also, i really like these new styles for crafty, but how can i change the >default settings for winboard. It would also be more interesting if there were >more options like in Chessmaster, Gromit, Zchess, or the future Rebel version. >Thanks. Crafty ver 15.x and 16.x can be found at ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ I have been playing Crafty for almost 5 years now. If you want the version that scores highest on LCTII try 15.13. It got 2440 on a PPro 200. In my opinion, 16.13 is the best version. Crafty is not tunned for the test suites, it scores well, but is tunned to play against humans. It will perform well against computers, but I think Crafty is a work in process (research/project) of Bob Hyatt PHD, and the author is not interested in maximum score on test positions, I think he is more interested in performance against humans. This is a great program, enjoy and read the Crafty Doc file to learn all the features and possible settings. Best Regards, Chris Carson
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