Author: Didzis Cirulis
Date: 07:10:08 02/13/98
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>When you say "out of book at an early stage" this sounds like either you >have a broken book, or a technical problem of some sort. The large.pgn >files produce a book that should not miss many opening plans by the >opponent. If you can post an example, I can check it against the same >book built on my P6. You are right. I found it out when used the option "show book". I saw almost nothing. Problem was in .gz file format and is solved by now. >If you are playing at fast time controls, Crafty won't do well on that >machine, because the shallow search depths will result in a signficant >number of null-move failures. Longer time controls will help. But to >make it play better, you need faster hardware. It's designed to run at >P6/200 speeds, and the null-move search (and everything else) is going >to perform best at that speed or faster. >the games. If you are running both programs on one machine, forget it. But just for the "scientific interest" and some work I have to do, I do it. And I have to admit that Crafty is much better now. It looks good! In a game against Genius 2, 40 moves in 2 hours,it is pressing to win! It is searching appr. 10 - 11 halfmoves deep while Genius does it at level 7-19. (And that all simultaneously with Winword, Pegasus Mail program and Netscape opened.)Sure I do understand that any chess program would run better on separate PC . I have ordered Fritz 5 and, before I receive it, I want to make Crafty as good as possible. Didzis Cirulis BTW there are a lot of computers here at my work. :-)
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