Author: Mike S.
Date: 18:51:34 05/27/04
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On May 27, 2004 at 15:25:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: >(...) >I think they can with proper setup. IE tell the GUI to not access its book and >just call Crafty. Crafty has its own book code and should then be able to >access its normal book just fine. At least others have claimed this works. I'm >not a windows nor chessbase user or expert of course... I think the cb-native Crafty versions work differently. They also do not write any files, unlike the winboard version. I guess the other users you mention, have used WB-Crafty and the Wb2Uci adaptor to run Crafty in Fritz. A cb-native version with a .CTG book will be able to fully use Fritz' book learning capabilities though. Something else missing in the CB Crafties is position learning. I don't know the reason why. Maybe you'd want to ask them to include it in their version, IOW activate the option by default (and also make it switchable among the engine options)? I wonder how a major chess programmer like you can even life without knowing and/or using ChessBase or Fritz :-)) You're really missing a lot. Fritz, Shredder, Hiarcs, etc... you don't even have one of these available at your place, to test Crafty against it (offline), etc.? I don't claim these are a must have - it's just very convenient to have that software, or parts of it (i.e. I have the older version CB 7.0, and only some of the engines, or the previous-to-last versions. But there are so many features, database access, data transfer etc. I wouldn't like to miss anymore). Regards, M.Scheidl
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