Author: David Dahlem
Date: 20:57:40 05/01/04
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On May 01, 2004 at 22:56:28, David Dahlem wrote:
>On May 01, 2004 at 21:25:19, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On May 01, 2004 at 20:48:07, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>On May 01, 2004 at 20:37:27, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 01, 2004 at 19:05:39, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 01, 2004 at 17:55:51, David Dahlem wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Many thanks for this update.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>An output to the log file showing results of each game by the Jekyll & Hyatt
>>>>>>personality would be a big help in finding settings that look promising, rather
>>>>>>than searching a long log file for "Black Mates" or "White Mates" etc, and then
>>>>>>manually determining which side the personality played in each game. Ideal would
>>>>>>be simply an output that says "Jekyll & Hyatt wins", preferably along with the
>>>>>>"pers_load" command string. This would make it easier for users to collect
>>>>>>promising settings.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards
>>>>>>Dave
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>good suggestion!
>>>>
>>>>I think i just discovered another issue. In Arena, with user adjucation or Arena
>>>>adjucation of games, i don't think the log files for Jekyll & Hyatt even show a
>>>>won/loss/draw result. Is this correct?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>Dave
>>>>
>>>
>>>That could be correct -- Win Crafty was really designed for Winboard - way
>>>before there was Arena. Winboard does send a nice little message that I can key
>>>off on - testing for Winboard. If this works, I 'll take a look at Arena.
>>>Also, I now got it to show which personality you areplaying if you do use
>>>"krafty ranper". That's kind of neat as the opponents change automatically.
>>
>>Arena does not send any unique messgage to the engine when a user adjudicates a
>>game - although in normal play it sends the same message as winboard e.g. "1-0
>>{White Mates}" which works fine to trigger the little note in the log -
>>solution: do not adjudicate Crafty wins and/or get the fine people at Arena to
>>seen a little message to the engine so that the engine can note in the log the
>>game was adjudicated and in favor of whom.
>>
>>
>>I do have it working in Arena and Winboard where the games end through the
>>normal method , an engine resigns etc. Since I just sent out a 1MB file to
>>about 200 users -- I want to give it some time before releasing the next update,
>>
>>It will look like this:
>>
>>Crafty 19.12 SE [Nimzovich] Wins! (or Jekyll and Hyatt) etc.
>
>Thanks Mike. I am having a hard time understanding how to extract command
>strings from winning games. First of all, there are two game files, 001 and 002,
>and 001 is always blank. Then there are two log files, 001 and 002. Why are 4
>files written for each game? Why not just one log file?
>
>What is frustrating me is that neither the 001.log or the 002.log show the
>complete game. I'm getting only partial log files, without any result. Could you
>post the crafty.rc file that works for you in Arena?
>
>Thanks
>Dave
I've learned a little more about this strange enigma. It seem that if the game
ends in mate, i get a full log file, with a result. But if the game ends in
resignation, i only get a partial log file, usually less than 15 moves are
logged, and there is not any result in the log. :-(
Regards
Dave
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