Author: Kurt Utzinger
Date: 10:51:26 07/24/04
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On July 24, 2004 at 13:38:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On July 24, 2004 at 12:13:20, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
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>>Below is my crafty.rc
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>>tbpath=c:\tbs
>>hash=48M
>>hashp=12M
>>cache=4M
>>xboard
>>computer
>>drawscore=0
>>log off
>>ponder off
>>book on
>>egtb
>>resign 6
>>exit
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>>And here the files in the folder C:\Programme\Arena\Engines\Crafty
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>>book.bin
>>book.c
>>bookc.bin
>>books.bin
>>book.lrn
>>position.bin
>>position.lrn
>>crafty.rc
>>wcrafty-19.15.exe
>>crafty.hlp
>>game.001
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>>Can anybody tell me why Crafty sometimes plays
>>(in a comp/comp-match) after 1.e4 the ugly 1...d5?
>>just to be out of book after 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3
>>I thought that Crafty would not play that way.
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>I don't think 1. ... d5 is "ugly". It's in all my opening theory books. :)
>But as to why Crafty plays it, I don't know unless you somehow have a bookc.bin
>that I did specifically for someone that wanted to play that opening as black.
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>I'll check the file on the ftp server to be sure it is right... Just checked,
>Crafty will play the center counter about one of every ten times it sees white
>play 1. e4...
That's true. The main thing that disturbs me is that
my Crafty is out of book after 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5
3.Nc3.
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>>And a last question: does Crafty learn and if no
>>how can this be set in the crafty.rc?
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>Yes it learns. and it defaults to on so long as you don't have a learn=0 in
>your crafty.rc file...
Many thanks for this clarification and your answer
to my questions.
Kurt
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>>Many thanks for your help.
>>Kurt
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