Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:39:58 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 09:26:28, James Flanagan wrote: >I'm just getting started setting up Winboard with the Crafty engine on a PC >(Win98, AMD K6-2/350, 64Mb RAM, 8.4+18.2Gb disks), and I have a lot of questions >about getting started: > >I'm having trouble (I think I am, anyway) getting Crafty to recognize the table >bases that I downloaded. In Crafty's Log file created during each game I never >see a 'tablebase probed' value other than zero. The documentation says to put >'tbpath=<whatever directory the tablebases are in>' into the command line. My >tablebase files are in "e:crafty\tb\". I have tried all permutations and >combinations of putting 'tbpath=e:crafty\tb\' into the winboard command line, >but continue to get a variety of error messages and 'tablebase probed=0' in the >logfile. My current command string in the Winboard shortcut Properties is as >follows: > >"C:\Program Files\WinBoard\winboard.exe" -cp -fcp "GNUchess" -scp "crafty >winboard" -sd "e:\crafty" -fd "c:\program files\winboard" > >If anyone with a Windows machine has a similar setup and is successfully using >tablebases, I would appreciate seeing your winboard.ini and crafty.rc files and >your command string for starting winboard. > another choice: add "tbpath=e:\crafty\tb" to your crafty.rc file which should be placed in either the directory where you start winboard, or in the directory you tell winboard to use as the 'home directory' for crafty. >Other questions: > >How should I set my cache and other adjustable parameters in winboard and >Crafty? > >How big should the cache be with 64Mb of RAM? > >Are there any other critical parameters that I need to set to get optimum >performance? > the best you can do is probably hash=48m, hashp=8m. and if you are using compressed tablebases, that won't work. Then you will have to try hash=24m, hashp=8m and cache=8m and see how that does... >Should ponder mode be on or off when in computer v. computer mode? playing two computers on one computer is already a bad test, so it really doesn't matter... > >Can two instances of Crafty play against each other (one black and one white) >and both use the tablebases? Yes, but there is an issue about 'learning'. It ought to be turned off, or both can try to update the files at the same time and I have no idea how windows will handle that. > >Is it possible for Crafty and Fritz to play together? Fritz seems confined to >ChessBase and Crafty to Winboard. Is there any common ground for these two >engines? \ If you bought fritz, you can download a crafty from the chessbase web site that will run inside the fritz gui... > >Can anyone tell me which engines that run in analysis mode under Winboard are >the strongest? I know that there are dozens of different engines, but which are >the best? > >Thanx. >-JamesF99 Which is the best automobile on the road? :)
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