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Subject: Re: Tournament update(about crafty)

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 06:05:10 01/14/99

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On January 14, 1999 at 08:35:17, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 13, 1999 at 18:00:48, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>So we have another bug in Crafty 16.1 for Fritz. Before the first match, I went
>>to ?Engine parameters?, unchecked ?No tricks?, checked ?Draw normal? and then
>>clicked on Save. I looked at it just now and parameters are not saved at all,
>>which means ?Tricks? are on and ?Draw normal? off unless this is modified every
>>time Crafty is loaded... Same for 16.3, by the way.
>>
>>Enrique
>
>While it won't help you here, I am going to 'default' these things to what makes
>sense for your kind of tournament, and let my 'icc' interface code turn them
>back on when appropriate.  Until xboard 4.0, I didn't have enough information
>to do this, so I had to assume I was playing a 'human' on a chess server and
>deal with that as the default.  But now I can pretty well tell that I am playing
>on a server or not.  And I'll fix this so it won't be a problem.  I can't do
>much about the book/tablebase issues however, since they are beyond my control
>apparently

If tablebases are not used at the root, they better be on disk, no? or otherwise
the access would be too slow. How much space do they take? I read somewhere that
Crafty tablebases use some 20GB... Using them the Fritz way has the advantage of
leaving them on CD.

What about releasing a book for Crafty that can work in Fritz?

> (as is the hash table issue and the continuity from move to move that
>is broken by stuffing moves into crafty every time the opponent makes a move).

The clearing of hashtables is supposed to be solved in the engine Crafty 16.3
for Fritz, but there are other wonderful bugs, and I already got 3 different
versions (bug fixes) of 16.3... The saga continues. :(

Enrique



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