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AFAIK the FAQ on Robert's site is hopelessy outdated I hope not "hopelessly".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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