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Subject: Re: Crafty Stein Test is over ....

Author: Dimitris Poulos

Date: 08:41:52 07/05/03

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On July 05, 2003 at 11:26:20, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On July 05, 2003 at 10:37:48, Dimitris Poulos wrote:
>
>>On July 05, 2003 at 09:54:35, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On July 05, 2003 at 07:14:35, Dimitris Poulos wrote:
>>>
>>>>Sorry, I have problem to use it. I tried with the wbtoUci adapter but I got
>>>>illegal function and termination. I also tried as a winboard engine with
>>>>crafty.rc but nothing. When I start wcrafty it doesn't recognise the crafty.rc
>>>>parameters.
>>>>P.S I use Fritz 8. OS Windows Millenium. Did you make it for Windows XP perhaps?
>>>>
>>>>Regards, Dimitris
>>>
>>>Dimitris,
>>>
>>>I think it should work - I  use WIN2K. I never used WINME - so I'm not familiar
>>>with with WINME problems.  to solve the problem we will have to isolate the
>>>source.  From my many years of experince of using crafty. There are 3 main
>>>sources of errors in Win Carfty:
>>>
>>>1.  Opening books - saftest is using the books from Bob's site.
>>>
>>>2.  Issues related to logging.  These are tied to the next issue.
>>>
>>>3,  Using "spaces" in folder names that Crafty is accessing.  Remove all spaces
>>>from folder names - use simple diectories like:
>>>
>>>"c:\tb"         for tablebases
>>>"c:\books"      for books
>>>"c:\crafty"     for your crafty files.
>>>
>>>Using directory names like "c:\progtram folders\crafty" will cause problems
>>>                                       ^
>>>                                     no spaces
>>>
>>>FYI, I do not even use spaces for Fritz 8 - as matter of habit.  It's simply:
>>>
>>>"d:\chessbase\engines\crafty"
>>>
>>>If you have spaces - fix that first. Also grab the books from Bob's site and see
>>>if that works,
>>>
>>>Best,
>>>
>>>Michael
>>
>>It doesn't work no matter what I do. The consistent message is: fault in
>>kernel32.dll. Anyway I wish you good luck in your testings.
>>Regards, Dimitris
>
>I'm sorry to hear that. There is not too much I can do.
>
>What processor does your machine have - perhaps I try to target is specifically
>for your processor.
>
>
>Mike

It is a pentium III 800 Mhz notebook.

Dimitris



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