Author: Pete Galati
Date: 20:31:05 11/16/99
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On November 16, 1999 at 22:31:31, Imran Hendley wrote: >>You are very likely missing 1 or both opening books because Crafty should not be >>thinking so fast, it should be going through book moves. To be quite honest, I >>don't actually know if you can really play a Chess engine against itself (I've >>never tried to) if that's what you're doing, but I think that your problem is >>that you don't have the books. Make sure you get ahold of the faq,txt, and >>crafty.doc files because they have important info. >> >>Also see Frank's Winboard site and get a download of his file config.zip from >>his download page because that has good examples for setting up Winboard & the >>files related to various engines. >>http://www.ginko.de/user/volker.pittlik/schach/winboard.htm >> >>Pete > >I have the books for Crafty, and I don't think that matching the engine against >itself is the problem. Sorry that was a bad example. Even when I play human vs >machine, crafty still does not move. I don't think the problem is with the books >at all in fact, because in a five minute game, crafty doesn't make a single move >before running out of time. The engine seems to be working though, because I can >see the thinking lines displayed above the board. I've looked at some config >files I downloaded from webpages, but they don't seem to do much. =( Sorry, I also keep forgeting that I've gone back to using Crafty version 16.19 myself because it's working better for me, I'm not sure if you could use a book that works for the new Crafty with the older one that I'm useing, but as a matter of fact, if you don't have a book for the new Crafty, it deffinatly won't work with a book for 16.19. Also, there was a slight book problem with version 17.0 that you mentioned, and other people had been having trouble with it, this is supposed to be solved with version 17.1, so if you go back to Bob's site and download 17.1, THAT might be the key to make it work. Good luck, Crafty's a good program, it just takes a little bit of elbow grease to make it work sometimes. Pete
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