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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