Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 02:34:47 12/18/00
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On December 18, 2000 at 02:22:06, Steve Schooler wrote: >From base position, wish to manually identify several candidate positions and >then use engine to analyze _only_ those positions (overnight) to specific depth >or time expenditure (e.g. 15 ply for each manually identified position, or 10 >minutes for each manually identified position). Failed attempts with Fritz 6a >and Crafty described below. Request anyone's help, any workaround involving >Fritz 6a, Crafty, or any other Freeware. > >Crafty (v 17.14) > >Tried to automate investigation via Analysis command by using Crafty.Rc and/or >redirected input stream. Couldn't specify analysis of multiple positions where >2nd Analysis step _waits_ for 1st Analysis step to satisfy search depth. Use the "batch" command. Something like this in your crafty.rc file: <other commands - hash tables and stuff> batch ponder off sd 15 <position #1> go <position #2> go ... <position #n> go exit <end of file> This will work properly, I believe. >Similarly, automation attempt via Annotate command apparently forces all >positions into one PGN file. Consequently, couldn't find clean way to >"annotate" _only_ candidate positions. I don't know how you could use annotate for this. But there is a much easier way to do this. Simply put the positions into an EPD file, say "test.epd" as a filename, then put in the commands for the depth/time you want to search. Lastly, type "epdpfga test.epd <output file name>" and all the specified positions will be searched, and the final depth/time/nodes/PV will be placed into the EPD output format. If you want to get the full screens worth of analysis for each position, just turn the log on and it should all be in the log file.
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