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Subject: Re: Crafty does not seem to be using tablebases under Arena

Author: Bryan Hofmann

Date: 05:33:30 06/07/04

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On June 06, 2004 at 18:01:44, Chris Taylor wrote:

>On June 06, 2004 at 17:19:32, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>
>>On June 06, 2004 at 16:50:54, Dave Kuntzsch wrote:
>>
>>>This is happening with both 19.10 and the "fixed" 19.13. The log shows that it
>>>found the five piece tablebase files, but there are no tablebase probes when
>>>five or fewer pieces are left.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>
>>In the Engine Management (Details Tab) for Crafty make sure you have the command
>>line options of tbpath=c:\where-your-EGTBs-are . You can not give this in the
>>.rc file Crafty needs to have this when it starts.
>
>
>When using Remi Coulom's Winboard wb0047, I only place the egtb in the .rc file.
> It starts up saying 6 piece found.  As well as book, hash, learn, resign,
>Whisper .........

I have no idea what this Remi Coulon's Winboard is as I have always used the
original Tim Mann winboard.

>
>In Arena all it has is the Wcrafty.XX-XX  and the rc file to start up?

I do not fully understand what you are asking here. In Arena under Engine
Management (press F11) on the Details Tab | General Tab for Crafty I have the
following;

Name: Crafty 19.13
Author: Prof. Dr. Robert Hyatt
Command Line: C:\Arena\Engines\Crafty\crafty.exe
Command Line Options: tbpath=c:\chess\tb
Type: WinBoard

On the Details Tab | Special Tab for Crafty I have the following;

Ini-File: C:\Arena\Engines\Crafty\crafty.rc


All of my EGTB files are located in c:\chess\tb directory and in the
C:\Arena\Engines\Crafty\ directory is the crafty.rc file which looks like this;

computer
hash=96M
hashp=28M
cache=32M
mode match
egtb
ponder off
swindle on
exit

This set up works just like winboard, all the the EGTBs are accessed and I have
no problem running Crafty under Arena (versions 1.0.3-1.0.8).



>
>Chris



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