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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.10

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:50:49 02/01/04

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On February 01, 2004 at 20:03:53, Bryan Hofmann wrote:

>On February 01, 2004 at 19:03:56, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On February 01, 2004 at 12:50:11, David Dahlem wrote:
>>
>>>On February 01, 2004 at 11:48:39, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 01, 2004 at 11:18:45, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I see the source for Crafty 19.10 is now available at ....
>>>>>
>>>>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/v19/crafty-19.10.zip
>>>>>
>>>>>What are the changes in this version? Is this the version playing in CCT6?
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>>from main.c:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *******************************************************************************
>>>> *   19.10   a fix to the EvaluateWinner() code to recognize that while KRB vs *
>>>> *           KR can not normally be won by the KRB side, we require that the   *
>>>> *           KR side not be trapped on the edge of the board, where it can be  *
>>>> *           mated.  FUTILITY code put back in.  19.9 will be the SE version   *
>>>> *           for those wanting to play with it.  new "learn" command option to *
>>>> *           allow the user to set the position learning parameters that are   *
>>>> *           used to trigger position learning and disable position learning   *
>>>> *           after the game is already lost.  the command syntax is as follows *
>>>> *           "learn trigger cutoff" and are expressed as fractions of a pawn   *
>>>> *           with a decimel point.  the default is learn .33 -2.0 which says   *
>>>> *           to do position learning when the score drops 1/3 of a pawn, but   *
>>>> *           turn it off after the score reaches -2.00 as the game is already  *
>>>> *           lost and learning won't help at this point.  this is the CCT-6    *
>>>> *           version exactly as played in the CCT-6 tournament.                *
>>>> *                                                                             *
>>>> *******************************************************************************
>>>>
>>>>I had not realzied that there was newer version --- so Crafty 19.09 SE will not
>>>>be released :(
>>>>
>>>>-- I will start working on Crafty 19.10 SE,  since this version appears to be
>>>>the "keeper" here.  All my changes made to 19.09 will be carried over to 19.10
>>>>SE  :>)
>>>
>>>Do you recommend deleting the old position.lrn file, since this version has a
>>>new learn command option?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Dave
>>
>>yes ..I would delete the the *.lrn file for every version -- because every
>>version has the potential to evaluate things differently - no sense in mixing
>>apples and oranges
>
>The .lrn file is nothing more then a ASCII text file for humans to see what as
>been placed in the .bin files. So deleting them has no effect on Crafty as it
>does not use them to play. Having said this, yes I would recommend that you
>delete both the position.bin and position.lrn files as many evals have changed
>and the new learning function change things enough to do so.

I didn't say that -- but that is what I meant.  Thanks for the clarification.

You want to reset the learing with every version or if you upgrade the machine.



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