Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:55:16 01/11/99
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On January 11, 1999 at 19:32:25, James T. Walker wrote: >I'm getting error messages like illegal move a1-a1 using Crafty 16.3 inside the >Fritz 5.32 GUI. Is anyone else having this problem. Crafty 16.2 works fine and >I'm happy the auto232 function works also with Crafty 16.x. Crafty seems >cripled in this environement without it's own book and end game tablebases. So >far (After 29 games at various time controls vs various opponents) its rating is >about 110 points below F5/J5. A couple of games F5.32 won using the endgame CD >in rook & pawn ending. I guess if it's a win with the CD it does not matter if >the other program has it or not. >Jim Walker It really makes a difference... because fritz is stuck with the position *before* it knows whether it is won or lost, while crafty probes deep in the search and gets to choose where it converts to a KRP vs KR ending. It hardly ever loses one (in fact it hasn't lost one in months that I know about) and it often draws lost ones, and wins drawn ones because of this...
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