Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:18:30 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 17:45:52, phili_ppe wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 10:59:48, phili_ppe wrote: > >>Hello >> >>I have been using the "normal" crafty for years now. I'm a bit lost with all >>these new commands of SE . I find them very interesting though and send big >>thanks to Mike Byrne for his job. I whish a clear manual. >>My question is : What is the strongest settings for Crafty Classic, I mean >>personnalites, book(s), and what to put in the crafty.rc file to optimize its >>strength ? >> >>Thank you for your answers. >> >>Philippe > >In fact, I need to know what to put in the crafty.rc file for the strongest >playing, using crafty SE I do not have much time, but for the most part the standard setting play very strong and there is no need to add too much to the crafty.rc file. You woudl want to set hash, hashp and cache - optimal setting are dependant upon your own memory constraints and speed of processor. I like on my dual 1.7 Ghz with 512M of ram. ============================================= mt=2 #(not needed for single CPU machines) hash=96M hashp=24M cache=32M exit =========================== Books are dependend upon preference - Skinner's crafty's site has all the personality books there that are autiomatically loaded. I am partial to "krafty fischer" if you want to play a strong personality. The kramnik , kasparov , leko and korchnoi personalities are also good when used with their opening books since those players generally play sound openings (except when Kasparov played Deep Blue). I espeically like the korchnoi book since it is larger than the others and he generally plays very solid lines. The personaity books only go 40 ply and only will the play the moves the GM actually played in a game before reverting to the larger book. Most of teh GM personaities are strong and if you play tournamnet, often a a different personality will win each time. The petrosian book will also very solid lines for both white and and black - but is perhaps is best suited for human play ( waits for the human to make a mistake) as opposed to Computer play. To answer your questiion - I do not know which settings are absolute strongest. Best, Michael
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