Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:44:22 01/23/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 00:54:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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? ;) I never worked with Linux but only with windows. The only thing that I know about Linux is that it is free and people can use it instead of using windows. I guess that the only thing that is not freeware here is intel C++ compiler version 7.0(people can download it only for evaluation). The tutorial that I thought about should give links where to download things like linux(about intel C++ I already have an evaluation version that I can use until the end of this month) and also give some examples of modifications of crafty. Uri
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