Author: Ralph E. Carter
Date: 02:08:37 01/03/99
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On January 02, 1999 at 18:53:06, Michael Marziale wrote: >Thanks to Ralph E. Carter who posted his experience setting up Crafty 16.3 >with Fritz, I was inspired to try it myself. And it works fine. > >My question is: Does Crafty make use of the crafty.rc file when running under >Fritz as a winboard engine? If so, then it should be possible to have the engine >use the learn.dat file and tablebases and book, etc., right? > >What is interesting to me (and I am a complete novice on these interface issues) >is that Fritz allows Crafty to use its opening book as well as the hash memory >set up within Fritz. But I wonder how Crafty feels about the whole thing, if >you get my drift? Would it use its own book if it had access to it, as well as >its tablebases and learn.dat info, while Fritz (or any other engine operating >under the Fritz interface) happily went along with the files normally available >to it? > >Thanks to all who indulge me on these questions. > >Michael I suspect that that learn.dat is very special. It is hard-earned info, learned down in the trenches in actual combat with (mostly) the strongest opponents. Making Crafty run under f532 was an interesting experiment. But it is not going to have maximum strength there: just look at the node speed for example. After watching it on ICC, and playing it myself under the handle ROBOmongrel, I LIKE Crafty. It is smart. Its play is not "refined", but very effectively direct and tactical, centralizing, classical, etc. It is especially scrappy in defence. I might even try an "optimizing" compile, but this gets complicated. Crafty 16.2, 16.3 are said to be a big improvement. Crafty + Winboard is one of my favorite programs. With little effort, running under ICC, it is as about as strong as the other single processor crafties. (But its rating hasn't caught up yet.) I dare you to match ROBOmongrel (as a human). I'll give you any time control you want. (Why am I doing this, temporarily? Because it is exciting to watch!) By the way, playing "anti-computer" doesn't help very much. I own f532. But I reject the multi-engine match feature. Why bother to create such arguable results?
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