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Subject: Re: Some Crafty help

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:51:43 03/19/02

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On March 19, 2002 at 13:48:42, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On March 19, 2002 at 13:32:51, Jeff White wrote:
>
>>I am really new to using Crafty. I am also new to letting programs chew on epd
>>files. I have a few questions that maybe some of you can help me with.
>>
>>1. When Crafty is analyzing a position, whats the "->" sign for? I also see this
>>one: <HT> whats that?
>
>-> has no particular meaning

Actually it is part of the output, and it means (in the case of xx->) that
iteration xx was completed, here is the time and best PV for that iteration.
You _can_ tune it to just give results after each iteration, rather than
pv updates during an iteration, to make it less "chatty"...




>
><HT> Stands for hashtable hit. It means that Crafty could not display
>the complete PV (pricipal variation) because it found the position in
>it's hashtables and didn't search any further below that point.
>
>>2. I use the program epd2diag and have Crafty look at those. How do I set the
>>time limit for how long it looks at each position? Is there another better
>>program to look at epd files with?
>
>WinBoard will do fine :)  (http://www.tim-mann.org)
>


Sure does.  Of course, in command mode, you can use the "st=NNN" command to
set a specific time for each search, prior to doing the epdxxx commands...



>>3. I have seen the different analysis of positions done by Crafty. How do you
>>get that to print or display it? For example, when I tell Crafty to do a
>>position, the analysis just scrolls up and the first parts of it are >unviewable. How can I view that or save it to a file?
>
>You should be able to use the annotate command. Also, Crafty outputs
>everything to logfiles by default (log.001 etc), so you can see the
>analysis there.
>

And in console / command mode, the window should have a "scroll bar" that
you can use to back up to see output that has scrolled off the top of the
screen...




>>I have read the docs AND the faq and they just didn't seem clear enough.
>
>AFAIK the FAQ on Robert's site is hopelessy outdated

I hope not "hopelessly".  :)

The crafty.doc is fairly current, also...



>
>--
>GCP



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