Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 09:26:32 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 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 Do you know if Chessbase works under the windows emulator (WINE, crossover, something) ? anthony
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