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Subject: Re: Crafty 19.18 confusion

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:07:23 01/21/05

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On January 21, 2005 at 12:45:29, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On January 21, 2005 at 12:20:55, Dave Kuntzsch wrote:
>
>>Main.c contradicts Peter Skinner's statement that the only change is that EGTBs
>>are handled properly. Here is the text of the updates included:
>>
>> *   19.18   HashProbe() no longer adjusts alpha/beta bounds if the entry is   *
>> *           not good enough to terminate the search here.  this has helped    *
>> *           speed things up (reduced size of tree) over many test positions   *
>> *           so either it was buggy or not worthwhile.  regardless, it is now  *
>> *           'gone'.                                                           *
>> *                                                                             *
>> *   19.19   connected passed pawns now scored as a simple pair of pawns that  *
>> *           are better as they are advanced, the old connected passed pawns   *
>> *           on the 6th rank special code has been removed.                    *
>> *                                                                             *
>> *******************************************************************************
>>
>>What is that 19.19 business? And there is no Crafty.c file anymore that allows
>>compiling by just pointing to that. Anyone know what's what?
>>
>>Dave
>
>As per Robert in the Crafty list, there were no changes other than that of the
>egtb code. Maybe something else has changed.
>
>No clue about the 19.19 buiness as well, unless these are changes Robert is
>using and has yet to release.
>
>The missing Crafty.c is easy to fix. Either create your own, or just drop the
>one in from Crafty v19.17
>
>Peter


So far as I can tell, the .zip and .tar.gz archives have crafty.c in them...



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