Author: Matthew Herman
Date: 12:45:10 01/14/99
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On January 14, 1999 at 14:04:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 13, 1999 at 21:25:12, Matthew Herman wrote: > >>On January 13, 1999 at 14:03:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On January 13, 1999 at 11:04:22, Matthew Herman wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>Where can I get epdfpga? I have epd2diag. >>>epdpfga is just a crafty command. You use that command to analyze and epd file >>>and write the output to a results file. You use epdscor to check the >>>correctness of the result, etc. >> >>oops!! :) I run a crafty on FICS so I should know! :)... it outputs ce and >>stuff? >The whole nine yards. Crafty has the most complete epd analysis of any tool I >have ever seen. There are two flaws you should be aware of. If there is a >single forced move, crafty will not try to analyze and will give an eval of 0. >These are easy to detect because acd and acn are both 1 and ce is zero. >Secondly, if there is a tablebase draw, crafty does not report it. The only way >to discover this is turn logging on and watch the output window. When it says >"trying to swindle" it has detected a drawn position, but hopes the opponent >will blunder. This one is not as serious (IMO) because crafty will still write >a ce which will draw your computer to the right move. It is just an >artificially inflated score. >Get one of the epd test suites from my epd directory and give it a try. >-- >C-FAQ: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html >"The C-FAQ Book" ISBN 0-201-84519-9 >C.A.P. Newsgroup http://www.dejanews.com/~c_a_p >Chess Data: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/ It sure does do the whole 9 yards!! I tried it on a few epd suites last night.. amazing what it reported.. :)
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