Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:24:40 09/26/98
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On September 26, 1998 at 15:40:26, Moritz Berger wrote: >After the match CST 289 vs. Hiarcs 6 I will now try Crafty 15.19 on PII-400 vs. >Hiarcs 6 on P233MMX (sorry, no 2 PII available at the moment). Time control will >again be 40/120. > >My question to all Crafty users: Are there any known reasons not to use 15.19? >Last time (15.17) I was told that it was a broken version anyway ... So is 15.19 >reasonably strong or is it also considered "trash"? 15.17 is the only version I have seen badly misbehave. 15.19 may well lose badly, but it isn't playing badly... > >To get Auto232 compatibility, I will have to use the Crafty 15.19 engine for >Junior/Fritz32 by the way. This means no tablebases, sorry. Does this imply that >Crafty's endgame will go south without EGTBs or can I expect a reasonable >performance? > > >Moritz It plays fine without them, but may draw a won KRP vs KR or lose a drawn KRP vs KR without them. But if neither program uses them, I don't see a problem...
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