Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:54:51 01/23/03
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On January 23, 2003 at 02:09:11, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 22, 2003 at 23:04:30, Mike Byrne wrote: > >> an interesting read, my own chess initiation followed these lines: >> >>1972 - Followed everygame of the Spasski - Fischer match - move by move - games >>used to be adjourned in those days - so often the game moves ended at 40 , and >>you had to pick where you left off the next day. There we no PC's then - at >>least to my knowledge. >> >>This may surprising to the younger chess folks in the US, but every game of >>that match was published in just above US newspaper on the front page with all >>the moves. That match was huge in the US, especially with the US/Russian theme >>in the height of the cold war. I was 16 and in high school at the time. Still >>have my "bookself" chess game made by 3M that I purchased at the time. Nice >>little folding wood set in a cardboard box. If Fischer didn't go nuts (yes, I >>think he is mentally unstable - chess genius for sure, but not stable IMO), >>chess would be a lot bigger today in the US. >> >>Fast forward to 1978 - saw an ad or Fidelity Chess Challanger 7 in the WSJ for >>$99 bucks. I was amazed, purchased one and I have been hooked ever since with >>computer chess. >> >>My current interest now is to replay great games of the past. I also started >>collecting Chess Informant books - I am now just 5 books away from collecting >>every volume. I started that 20 years ago - but really didn't make the big push >>until this past year. One smart thing I did 20 years ago, was to purchased >>some of the early volumes as a few of them are now out of print. I also have >>every Chess Informant Game published in CB format with complete Informant >>annotations - that's cool. Time flies by when reviewing great games of the >>past. In addition, I am in the process of putting some very nice game >>collections together in CB format, all the most signifcant games, major >>tounaments etc over the last 200 years. >> >>My favorite chess computer is the wood Mephisto 68030 with Genius 2 running at >>33 Mhz pn a 68030 chip. In those days (1992), the 68030 33 Mhz was about as >>fast as 433(486 chip) 33 Mhz - which were the high end machines at the time >>time. ICC was totally free for everybody in those days and I used that Mephisto >>68030 under the handle of "fitter" - maually playing the moves over the board >>and then entering them on the computer with a mouse - playing 5 3 games and >>beating GM's. That was a lot of fun. There were not a lot of computers on ICC >>back then and GM/IM's were much more willing to play computers on the internet. >>Of course now, that has all changed. Once the 586-P90's came out , Genius 68030 >>was no longer competitive. >> >>Eventually I migrated to crafty and with Bob Hyatt's help, I was soon able to >>compile modified versions of crafty on my own. That has always been great >>enjoyment and without Bob's work and time, I would never have able to do that. >>I can make modifications, but I can't program and Bob would be the first to tell >>you I can't program. > >For me things are the opposite > >I can program but I never tried to make modifications to crafty. > >I think that it will be a good idea if there will be some page(or maybe there >is) that give instructions step by step how to compile and make modification to >crafty. > >When I say how to compile I do not mean only to have no errors but also to do >all the steps for profile optimizations. > >Uri 1. Get a linux box with redhat 8.0 2. download Intel's c++ compiler version 7.0 3. follow intel's install instructions (trivial to do) 4. download crafty zip/tar file 5. unzip/untar it 6. cd into the crafty directory where you put the stuff 7. type "make profile" 8. when it finishes, you are ready to run with a profile-optimized executable. Couldn't be simpler, could it? ;)
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