Author: pavel
Date: 00:59:42 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 03:52:03, pavel wrote:
>On April 28, 2004 at 22:48:06, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>Some of the enhancements below were suggested by Crafty SE users!
>>
>>* The new "Jekyll and Hyde" personality was changed to "Jekyll and Hyatt" to
>>honor, with a light touch of humor, the author of Crafty - Bob Hyatt.
>>
>>* A new GM personality “Najdorf” that will play the mirror the moves if the
>>great GM Najdorf from 9….Bh2+ to the end of the game. (saved for one
>>insignificant transposition) if provided sufficient time. On my machine, 10
>>minutes was the max to find any one move.
>>
>>[Event ""]
>>[Site "Varsovia"]
>>[Date "1935"]
>>[Round "-"]
>>[White "Gluecksberg"]
>>[Black "Najdorf Miguel"]
>>[Result "0-1"]
>>
>>1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. Nf3 d5 5. e3 c6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8.Ne2 Nbd7
>>9. Ng5 Bxh2+ 10. Kh1 Ng4 11. f4 Qe8 12. g3 Qh5! 13. Kg2 Bg1!! 14.Nxg1 Qh2+ 15.
>>Kf3 e5!! 16. dxe5 Ndxe5!+ 17. fxe5 Nxe5!+ 18. Kf4 Ng6+ 19. Kf3 f4 20. exf4 Bg4!+
>>21. Kxg4 Ne5+ 22. fxe5 h5#
>>
>>
>>* Crafty SE will now display the personality name in Arena and Winboard when
>>used as a winboard engine. It will also be picked up automatically in the pgn
>>file.
>>
>>* "ranper" was fixed (did not work properly), changed (it is now a "krafty
>>extension" and will change every game (as opposed to every move). Most users
>>did not like it changing every move, myself included.
>>
>>Example "krafty ranper 0 42" will select one of 43 personalities at random for
>>every game.
>>
>>Example "krafty ranper 23 42" will select one of 20 GM personalities at random
>>for every game.
>>
>>
>>
>>* The random settings selected by "Jekyll & Hyatt" personality ("krafty
>>jekyll" at the command prompt or crafty.rc file will now be captured at the
>>beginning of every log along with a "command string" for easy copying and
>>pasting into the crafty.rc file for further testing of new settings that look
>>promising.
>>
>>* A new randomness factor for the "Jekyll & Hyatt" personality that will act a
>>turn dial to increase randomness of up to 50% of piece values. The initial
>>"Jekyll & Hyatt" personality was a randomness of plus or minus 10% of piece
>>values. The use can now increase this up to 50% in increments of 10%. If you do
>>not set it, need not to worry; you will get the standard +- 10%. For randomness
>>of +-20%, you would use "krafty jekyll 20", +- 30% "krafty jekyll 20" etc up to
>>50%.
>>
>>* The "Jekyll and Hyatt" personality will no longer contain settings for search
>>depth, so you may use this personality at the search depth of your choosing.
>>
>>* A user may now override all or just a few of the random pieces settings with
>>your piece setting of you own. For example, say you always want to have the
>>queen valued at 900. Type "value queen 900" in the crafty.rc file or command
>>prompt and when you used "Jekyll and Hyatt" random setting personality, you will
>>always get the value for 900 for the queen. "value rook 500" would lock the
>>rook at 500 etc. All the other piece values will still be chosen at random.
>>
>>* General improvement in feedback when using some of 'extended Crafty SE"
>>commands (both at the console level and in the logs).
>>
>>* Look for the update in your mailbox this weekend. I will post here when
>>released.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>Michael
>
>
>Is it possible to download the program without being part of the mailing list?
>
>pavs
I got it : http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details/Crafty.html
I will be using it at ICC, but I will have to noplay "Crafty" for the time
being in fear of being banned by him automatically.
I have done some private match With crafty against Shredder8 and other
commercial engines, the result was very very impressive. It's also doing well in
Leo's tourny.
Cheers,
pavs
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