Author: Günther Simon
Date: 01:11:02 05/28/04
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On May 27, 2004 at 21:51:34, Mike S. wrote: >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 would say it quite different: How could he live that long without really knowing, what being a CB 'Native' really means for poor Crafty ;) SSDF should start trying another approach... Günther
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