Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:26:14 09/26/98
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On September 27, 1998 at 00:24:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I should add that some are having problems with the 15.19 from ChessBase, for reasons unknown. Strange crashes and stuff, that aren't being seen in the normal 15.19 codes... if it fails, you'll know it because it won't play oddly, it will crash...
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