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Subject: Re: Is there a way to add games to Crafty's opening book?

Author: Jeff White

Date: 07:21:36 02/14/03

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On February 14, 2003 at 03:14:27, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 14, 2003 at 02:52:08, Jeff White wrote:
>
>>I wanted to add about 100,000 more games to Crafty's book. Is there a way to do
>>this or will I have to re-build the book?
>
>You will have to rebuild the book.
>
>>Another question. In experimenting with Crafty on my old pentium 100, I've found
>>that it gets about 10000 nps. It is running dos. If I put Win 98 on it will it
>>run the program faster?
>
>No discernable difference.  If anything, it will be slower.
>
>> I realize that it's very limited because of the chip and
>>the memory (16 meg) but I was just curious.
>
>16 megs ram?  I doubt if you can even load Win98 on it.  If you did, I am pretty
>sure you would be sorry you did it.
>
>A modern machine can easily get 1,000,000 NPS with crafty.  100x as fast as your
>boat-anchor.  Sounds like a waste of perfectly good electricity to me, to run
>that box.

Heheheh, yeah I know. I DID have Win98 on it though but took it off because of
speed. It's just an old Pentium 100 laptop. I wanted something portable I could
play against. It is strictly used for chess. Matter of fact just put Rebel 12 on
it and it works great. Thanks for the reply.

Regards,
Jeff




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