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Subject: Re: SSDF(Shredder 8 - Crafty 18.12)A1200, 2½-½

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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