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Subject: Re: Crafty Help

Author: pavel

Date: 14:24:56 03/08/05

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On March 08, 2005 at 16:40:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On March 08, 2005 at 11:59:40, pavel wrote:
>
>>I am trying to run a tournament of Crafty Engines.
>>
>>All the last version of the series which also run in windows, will perticipate
>>in this tournament. (ie, Crafty 15.20 of 15 series)
>>
>>Currently these are the engine version I have:
>>
>>Crafty 11.23 (last version of the series)
>>Crafty 12.90 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 13.10 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 14.13 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 15.20 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 16.19 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 17.14 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 18.15 (""                    ""  )
>>Crafty 19.19 (""                    ""  )
>>
>>
>>
>>I need to know if this is the correct last version available to everyone?
>>Do they all use the current book format properly?
>>(I have checked and all of them seem to use the book, I need to know if this
>>cause any problem in a game situation)
>>
>>Also I want to know if placing all of them in same folder while running a
>>tournament will cause conflict in accessing book and log file.
>>Is it better to have a seperate folder for each version while running a
>>tournament, with it't own book?
>>
>>Thanks
>>pavs
>
>
>That is going to cause problems.  You either need to run each in a separate
>directory with a separate book.bin and position.bin file, or else run with
>"learn=0" and accept the potential duplicate games that will happen.  If you let
>two share a common book, things will probably get broken when both update it for
>learning without properly knowing to lock things to prevent screwed up
>updates...

Thanks bob.
I am going to make seperate folders for each engine, and in Franks webpage, I
saw opening books for older versions of crafty, so I am going to use those.

I am planning to play some 5 minutes and than some 40/40.


pavs



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