Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:39:06 04/02/98
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On April 02, 1998 at 18:16:10, ramon b. de robles wrote: >i come across a note from the internet mentioning that crafty has more >advanced features than fritz3 so i downloaded the crafty as well as >other software like arasan, trisham, crazy bishop, gnu, winboard 3.6.2 >and i found out that crafty is the strongest based on its autoplay >(machine vs. machine) mode. however, i have some problems : > >The autoplay option of Winboard 3.6.3 is not functioning properly ( ie. >Illegal move a1a1) if i set the first engine using crafty 14.9/ >14.8 for windows ( ie. with Crafty 14.9 playing white versus other >programs ) hence i am using the older version of crafty. However , if >i set Crafty 14.9 as secondary engine, i have not experienced any >problem. there is no problem when i use 14.6 or previous version of >crafty. > >is there any plan to upgrade the winboard software so that there can >be a continious autoplay ( ie changing sides like fritz5, rebel9) and >saving it to a file. under unix it will do this. It exits after a single game, but a shell script can then start another. and if you use the savegame option on the command line, it will add each game to a pgn file... I do this regularly. I'm almost done with the current SMP parallel search...it's been playing on the servers for a couple of days now, so once it can be "put to rest" for a while, I'll look at playing black and white... should work...
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