Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 17:01:23 01/10/98
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On January 10, 1998 at 16:18:21, William Dozier wrote: >Good Day everyone, and to all who own Macs. This is regarding openning >books and table base. I have ran crafty on the Mac and its a good >machine for crafty to run on. Especially with assembly-code modules for the bitboard operations, as in the PC version. >So now i have some questions. What is the >proper t/b w/b for the end game for the Mac? Some of the t/b seems to be >corrupted and outdated. The large books seemed to be outdated and >corrupt. I have put the whole thing togather last year and tested aganst >Hiarcs 1.0 It did pretty well aganst Hiarcs 1.0 And its runs real fast >on the Mac PPc. Has anybody did any real testing, Crafty Vs. Hiarcs 6.0. There have been some manual ICC games between Hiarcs 6.0 Mac and Crafty. I imagine there have also been many between Hiarcs 6.0 PC and Crafty. >I havent done any testing, Im incline to belive that Craft will do well, >if you chess programmer put your minds to it, And that would be a nice >project to work on; since the Crafty chess program has not been updated >for some time. Yes <sigh>. I know at least one programmer who is capable of doing it (he gave me a Crafty 12.9 PPC version with some of the bitmap stuff assembly coded) but he says it isn't ready to post. I'll see if I can get him interested. >So anyway more questions. How do one use unity, to put >togather the t/b and the larg books, and to get them to work properly >and up and running for the Mac? Ps.Crafty for the Mac even when its not >put togather right it works real good with the graphical chess interface >or if one want to use the keyboard to input the moves. It has been >proven that Crafty and Hiarcs runs faster on the Mac than IBM machine or >its clones Hmmm ... Hiarcs yes, Crafty I'm not sure of. The partly optimized Crafty 12.9 got 80,877 nps on the "1.a3 test" on a G3/250 accelerator card, (323 nps/MHz), which seems decent, but I don't have any other 12.9 results to compare. >/infact The old, new and future Mac O/S is a good platform to >run the best chess programs. Case and point, if Rebel was written for >the mac, it would unbeatable. Can anybody prove me wrong that the IBM >machines are a beter platform. Why dont you guys put it to test, you got >the money and the machines and the brains, lets do it!/ I would like >some postive answer and feedback. Respectfully/William Dozier. Alas, the people with the money to buy chess software mainly own PCs. However, I continue to try to help out/support those that are willing to write chess software for the Mac. Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) For Mac Chess software sites on the Web, start at: http://members.aol.com/Macchess/ and follow the links.
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