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Subject: Re: What does "SE" stand for ?

Author: Henrik Boye Laursen

Date: 11:15:04 12/29/03

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On December 29, 2003 at 13:44:32, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On December 29, 2003 at 12:57:01, Henrik Boye Laursen wrote:
>
>>Sorry for the dumb question, but I cannot find an answer, i.e Shredder 7.04 SE
>>and Crafty 19.09 SE ?
>>
>>Henrik
>
>Crafty 19.08 SE is slightly different from standard Crafty.  It is Bob Hyatt's
>code modified slightly by me.  Source is available to anyone by request.
>
>For Crafty , it stands for "special edition" - besides personalities, it
>includes added features such as delay move, modifiable piece values, additional
>pawn extensions and more aggressive time -- usage these are all different from
>standard crafty.    My next step is to write the code that enables all this from
>the command line or crafty.rc file.  That way you can have "true" standard
>crafty or a tweaked crafty from one exectuavle.  Even slecting the "standard"
>crafty from Crafty SE will give a slihtly tweaked crafty.    Most of the  other
>current evaluation settings in  original Crafty are tweakable now, you just go
>through the code to see which ones you want to tweak.  I have configue a special
>wb2uci.eng that reflects these options, so that they may be selectable from a
>GUI - as opposed to the crafty.rc file.   Crafty SE runs better under the Fritz
>8 GUI than the Arena GUI - I'm not sure why.
>
>For the source, send me a an email with "source", I will now have a mailing list
>for source changes.
>
>For the executable mailing list , send me an e-mail with the word "include" in
>the subject list.  Those on the mailing list will always receive the latest when
>available.  Leo also now carries the SE verisioin on his website.  His version
>will all be exactly the sameone that I email - so there is no need to get
>another copy if you are on my email list (I'm trying to save Leo's bandwidth).
>
>For those that enjoy Crafty SE, remember to thank Bob Hyatt - it is his program
>- He has written  almost all  of the 40,000 lines+ of code - I have written just
>a few line of code in comparision.  He will all the code in standard crfaty in
>due time I am sure.  I think I need to clean the code up, so that the user can
>get true standard crafty or Crafty SE , based on his own desire from one
>exectuable.
>
>Best,
>
>Michael Byrne

Thank you for the detailed describtion.

BR

Henrik




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