Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 07:31:39 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 09:39:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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: >> If you want to use tablebases you have to tell it crafty by the command "egtb". Setting up tbpath alone will not do. Something like winboard -cp -fcp gnuchess -scp "crafty winboard egtb hash=24M hashp=8m cache=8M" .... should do. >>"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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