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Subject: Re: Crafty exiting prematurely

Author: pavel

Date: 18:05:47 08/19/01

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On August 19, 2001 at 20:06:39, Peter Berger wrote:

>On August 19, 2001 at 19:49:42, pavel wrote:
>
>>I m having the same problem, and that happened more than 2-3 times.
>
>I am not sure you really have the same problem, pavel.
>
>>
>>I ussually setup crafty with other programs to play a big chunk of games under
>>winboard with /mg command. and then I go to sleep.
>>
>>last night I gave mg/60 and went to bed after watching the first few games.
>>
>>in the morning I see only 11 games completed and "crafty exited unexpectedly"
>>
>>and this is not the first time it happened.
>>
>>I remember the .rc file causes some problems with crafty , if not setup rightly,
>>since I couldnt find whats the problem, I deleted the .rc file and let it run.
>>It seems to be running smoothly now (without the .rc) file, but I am not usre if
>>this is the actual solution.
>>
>This definitely can't be the solution to your problem IMHO.
>
>Two notes:
>
>a.) Download a reliable executable, namely the newest wcrafty-18.10.exe from Bob
>Hyatt's site . Maybe you tried to compile for yourself and goofed or you tried
>one of the Corbit executables ( not all of them will work well on every
>computer) .
>
>b.) DON'T delete the Crafty.rc file. This will weaken Crafty.
>
>An example for a normal Crafty.rc file for your computer matches.
>
>hash 48M
>hashp 10M
>tbpath=C:\tbs
>cache 16M
>
>
>There isn't much you can do wrong here . Only thing you have to pay attention to
>is that the last line of this file _has_ to be empty.
>
>hash should be a 3/4 of a power of 2 ; hashp about a quarter of that . Tbpath is
>the path for your Nalimov tb's in case you have some of them installed ; cache
>helps improving TB performance.
>
>For more details you could have a look at the crafty.doc on the download site
>and yes : it's very much possible that you already knew all this and are bored
>now - so what ;-) ?
>
>pete
>
>>
>>pavs...


nope,
didnt compile it myself, but thanks for the tips though. ;)
and go the most reliable executable available (from bobs ftp.)

pavs



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