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Subject: Re: Has Crafty Classic 2004 an new type of extension?

Author: Tanya Deborah

Date: 19:48:56 11/22/04

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On November 22, 2004 at 11:28:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 22, 2004 at 02:08:30, Thomas Gaksch wrote:
>
>>On November 21, 2004 at 18:28:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 20, 2004 at 16:45:39, Thomas Gaksch wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>Crafty Classic 2004 seems to plays stronger than Crafty 19.17. If you list the
>>>>extensions there is an new one called "start depth extension". Does anybody know
>>>>what this extension is doing? Or what is the secret of this stronger version?
>>>>
>>>>Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>That is probably just a "pre-load" on the extensions.  IE at ply 1, you can add
>>>.75 to the depth without changing anything.  Except that the first fractional
>>>extension will now round to over a ply.  IE if you start depth at 1.00, a .75
>>>extension doesn't do anything, until another .75 extension is added, then the
>>>extension is 1 ply with that .5 carried over until the next .75 is added.  If
>>>you start at 1.75, the first three .75 extensions actually extend, the 4th does
>>>not, then the next 3 do, the next doesn't, etc...
>>
>>Thank you very much for your answer Robert,
>>and also thank you for your great program Crafty. I have two short new
>>questions.
>>In an older Crafty Version you added a simple approch of the singular extensions
>>to the code. Why disapperded the code without any comment in the newer Versions?
>
>It was never really "in". I played with it off and on for a while, and even gave
>the code to others to experiment with.  But I've not seen anything that really
>played better, so it has never been a part of a normal released version.  I will
>probably play with it some more in the future as I haven't given up, but it
>simply hasn't helped overall, yet...
>
>
>>My great hobby are chess engines. My problem is, that I have no much time
>>((family, work...) to build a chess engine from the scratch. Would you please
>>allow me to develop an Crafty Clone with an name like TGCrafty and let it play
>>on an chess server? That would be very generous from you. I know that there are
>>so much clones and nobody wants to see another clone but it is the only chance
>>for me to have a kind of "own" chess engine. Naturally I would alway publish
>>that it is "only" a Crafty clone.
>>
>
>
>
>there is no problem doing that.  Several others are doing it already...
>


How many Crafty clones are?

Can you please give me some names?

Thanks
Tanya Deborah.
>
>
>
>>Thank you for your answer.
>>Thomas
>>
>>Sorry, for my bad English.



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