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Subject: Re: Where can I download a winboard crafty for my Shredder5?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 00:31:09 03/20/01

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On March 19, 2001 at 16:20:23, Peter Berger wrote:

>On March 19, 2001 at 14:00:34, Eran wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a downloadable winboard crafty for running under Shredder5.
>>Where is it please?
>>
>>Thank you for your help,
>>Eran
>
>Hi ,
>
>go to ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt .
>
>Download read.me first and have a look at it to learn about the crafty basics.
>
>Then go to the v18 directory; forget about the books , you won't need them .
>Just download the wcrafty-18.6-file .
>
>While you are there you might also like to download crafty.doc .
>
>Installing WinBoard engines in Shredder is a piece of cake . Just choose the
>commands in the menus and it will work OK .
>
>Then you can have a look at the crafty.doc . There you can learn how to adjust
>the hashtables and point the path to the tablebases in a file crafty.rc or set a
>cache for the tablebases to optimize performance .
>
>So you can actually do it step by step.
>
>pete

But you will not be happy with the implementation of Crafty in the Shredder GUI.
Crafty works much better in the ChessPartner GUI.
Jim



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