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Subject: Re: Why no positional learning for Crafty 16.6 in Chessbase?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 18:53:23 06/22/99

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On June 22, 1999 at 20:29:55, Mark Young wrote:

>On June 22, 1999 at 20:06:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 22, 1999 at 16:35:55, Mark Young wrote:
>>
>>>Hello Bob,
>>>
>>>I see that Hiarcs7.32 and Crafty 16.6 can make use of the tablebase in the
>>>Hiarcs7.32 interface. Why has not Crafty also been updated to use positional
>>>leaning as in the stand alone crafty in the Hiarcs7.32 interface. Is this
>>>plained for the future, or is book learning enough.
>>
>>
>>I'm not quite sure how they could disable it...  ie it opens its own file
>>internally so unless it is disabled intentionally it should work no matter
>>what.
>>
>>look for 'position.bin' and 'position.lrn'...  if they aren't there, then
>>it is intentionally turned off for reasons unknown...  if they are there
>>and are getting bigger as you play (getting bigger slowly, I hope, as each
>>entry represents something bad happening) then it is working ok...
>
>I see Hiarcs7's learn file, and comets learn file...I searched the hard drive
>for position.bin and Position.lrn and could not find them.

Check in their .ini or .cfg file and see if they have a line that turns Crafty's
learning off by something like =off, or =0, or = FALSE. It may just be an easy
problem to fix.

Pete



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