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Subject: Re: About Crafty-18.13

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:08:09 05/10/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 07:15:53, Francisco J. Pájaro Rives wrote:

>Well, I´m absolutelly ignorant in computer chess programs, so I have a lot of
>doubts. Recently I have downloaded crafty-18.13.
>
>-I have readen that is better to put the ponder option off, or crafty would be
>surprised by the opponent´s movement and would play worse. That´s true?

Who told you that?  It is complete nonsense...


>-Well, I play against crafty on Winboard and I believe that Crafty plays the
>same in 5 minutes or in 15. How can I set the "intelligence" of the program?
>-I have downloaded the tablebases but I don´t know how to run them. What should
>I do?
>Thank you very much.

If you installed them as directed, you only need to add "egtb" to your
crafty.rc file and they will work.  It doesn't "play the same in 5 or 15
minutes.  More time produces a deeper (and better) search...




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