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Subject: Re: some help configuring crafty

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:42:46 01/26/04

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On January 26, 2004 at 11:17:56, Anthony Cozzie wrote:

>1. How do I turn off position learning? I want to see a wide variety of games,
>not Crafty winning the same game over and over again.  I tried adding "learning
>off" to the .craftyrc file (with correct syntax, which I forget now), but that
>doesn't seem to work.

there are three kinds of learning.  If you really want to turn off _all_
learning (which I don't recommend if you play matches) learn=0 will do that.

If you want to turn off position learning only, learn=5 will do that.

(comments in option.c give you the choices, this is a 3-bit binary value,
bit1=book learning, bit2=position learning, bit3=result learning.


>
>2. Do I need to download a special book file because I compiled it -m64?  And
>what exactly are the files; on the ftp site I see like 5 book* files.
>

If you are building for a 64 bit machine, you have to rebuild a binary book,
as the current code does not have a portable binary book file format (that will
be in version 20).

Download enormous.pgn, start.pgn and startc.pgn

start crafty and type the following three
commands:

book create enormous.pgn 60 10
books create start.pgn 60
bookc create startc.pgn 60

quit

and you are set.  The last two take zero seconds, the first will take some
time.  5 minutes on my opteron box, 8 minutes on my dual xeon box...




>3. Can I set the resign threshold of crafty?
>
>anthony



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