Author: Pete Galati
Date: 00:17:15 01/19/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 18:31:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 14:19:53, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On January 18, 2000 at 09:04:57, Luca Dormio wrote: >> >>>On January 18, 2000 at 08:20:52, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote: >>> >>>>what's the command to let crafty annotate a game (char. interface)? >>>>I used it some years ago but now I'm not able to find it on the help >>>>command. >>> >>>you can use "annotate" (plain text output) or "annotateh" (HTML output); try the >>>command "help annotate" in Crafty for further details. >>> >>>Ciao! >>>Luca >> >>Just a note, if you just enter the "annotate" command, Crafty will give you an >>outline of what should be entered in: >> >>Crafty v17.6 >> >>White(1): annotate >>usage: annotate <file> <color> <moves> <margin> <time> [nmoves] >>White(1): >> >>So you could annotate with: >> >>annotate game.pgn wb 15 .75 60" >> >>and Crafty would annotate the file "game.pgn" for both sides of the board, >>starting at move 15, with a 3/4 pawn margin, and it would use 60 seconds for >>each (1/2) move. >> >>And actually, I never did figure out what "[nmoves]" is for, but it's not a >>required input, so I ignore it. >> >>Pete > > >nmoves will give you the scores/PVs for the top N moves. IE I do a search, >find the best move/score, remove it from the move list, and search what is >left again (without clearing hash info) to find the second best move. I remove >that, and continue this circus <nmoves> times. > >:) > >Also note you can replace "bw" with the name of one of the players. This is >useful if you have a pgn file with several games, and you want to annotate for >the same person in each game, where colors might flip. it is way more efficient >to annotate for one side only as that doesn't crush the hash table after every >search. OK, I've noticed Crafty allways cleared the hashtables allot! Also, when I've increase the hashtable size for doing annotations Crafty did less of "<HT>" (which I think meant that Crafty's search was cut short by the Hashtable?) Pete
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