Author: James T. Walker
Date: 20:05:04 02/04/99
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On February 04, 1999 at 22:05:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 04, 1999 at 19:55:03, James T. Walker wrote: > >>Chessbase has posted Crafty 16.4T. It is supposed to be Crafty 16.4 with >>Tabelbase support. Can anyone tell me how to tell Crafty where to find the >>tablebase files? I tried putting the info in the engines.ini file but Crafty >>still can not find the TB directory. I have the Nalimov Tabelbases in the >>directory \chessbase\engines\TB. Also Crafty 16.4T (without tabelbases) seems >>to be worse than 16.3 which is about 100 points worse than 16.2 ! These are the >>Fritz GUI versions found at Chessbase. >>Jim Walker > > >I'm not sure what you are testing, but _no_ 16.x version is 100 points better >or worse than another. That is a _serious_ difference, which is lacking in >these. > >By my testing, 16.4 is quite a bit better than prior versions, based on a _lot_ >of engine vs engine games on the chess servers... Hello Bob, Have you tested the versions coming from Chessbase/Germany? What do you call a program that lost by 41-9 to Fritz 5.32? What do you call a program that lost to Nimzo99 by 25-7? Chessbase calls them Crafty 16.3 and Crafty 16.4T. I've never got that kind of results from Crafty 16.2 although it still lost. These are the versions of Crafty that are coming out of Chessbase. Of course Crafty is playing without it's opening book. I usually give it the Fritz 5.32 book. It is also playing without tabelbases. That's why I'm trying to get the 16.4T version to use it's tablebases. It has no book learning or hash learning either. What do you think all these features add up to in elo points? Without them it's getting crushed. I'm playing Crafty on the PII because it doesn't seem to like the AMD K6-2. The hardware is fairly close, maybe a 10% advantage for the K6-2. Regards, Jim Walker
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