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Subject: Re: Crafty Help

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:55:41 03/09/05

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On March 08, 2005 at 22:03:30, Joshua Haglund wrote:

>On March 08, 2005 at 16:41:38, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 08, 2005 at 15:05:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On March 08, 2005 at 14:31:22, Joshua Haglund 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
>>>>
>>>>    Each major version release, cannot use a book created between versions.
>>>>However, using a Chessbase book should not have any affect.
>>>
>>>18 and 19 versions can use the same book.  I do not remember about the others.
>>
>>
>>There are certainly others.  The only "break points" are where the new book
>>format changed.  Such as when adding CAP scores, or a change in book learning,
>>etc....
>
>Guess I never used really tried using the same book for different versions. Back
>in the day with, 15.xx, 16.xx, now 19.xx you couldn't use the same book. I
>shouldn't assume things. :) I never used much of the 17.xx or 18.xx.
>
>Joshua Haglund
>toneewa@yahoo.com


Version 20 will reintroduce the same problem.  I'm slightly changing the format
so the binary book will work on big-endian, little-endian, 32-bit and 64-bit
machines without having to re-build the book.  I screwed up more than once with
the opteron because of this and I'm fixing it once and for all.  :)



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