Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 09:06:42 07/08/99
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On July 08, 1999 at 11:31:43, Zachariah Amela wrote:
>The name Crafty has come up quite a bit on this board and I was curios if this
>freeware package was downloadable?
Yes.
>I will be running it on an x86 machine w/ Win95. Does a version of Crafty exist
>for this platform?
Yes
>What would be an URL to download it from?
The official version:
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/v16/
My tweaked version:
ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/
{it will work with huge opening books and other strange things like that...}
>Do I need a
>seperate interface program to use or does one come w/ the package?
Get winboard from here:
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
>Is there a version of Crafty for Linux on an x86?
Yes
>If so, where would that be available?
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/v16/
>Again, would I need a seperate interface package?
Yes. Xboard is great for that.
>Xboard compatiblity?
Yes.
>I've been told that Crafty was developed out of the now famous CrayBlitz
>program.
From main.c:
Crafty is the "son" (direct descendent) of Cray Blitz. it is designed
totally around the bit-board data structure for reasons of speed of ex-
ecution, ease of adding new knowledge, and a *significantly* cleaner
overall design. it is written totally in ANSI C with some few UNIX system
calls required for I/O, etc.
>Is this true? Was Crafty originally designed for Cray machines?
Crafty was written by the same person who designed Cray Blitz, Dr. Robert Hyatt
(a frequent poster to this forum). It is written in Portable C, and hence can
run on almost any platform.
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