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-Crafty version 18.2
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-What's new?
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-the winboard "hang" problem was fixed, thanks to Tim Mann. Other changes
-include some major work on book learning to make it more 'aggressive'. IE
-if you clear all your learning data, and let crafty play, it will try to
-repeat won games and avoid lost games.
-
-There are other minor changes:
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-* 18.2 minor bug in analyze mode would break the "h" command when black *
-* was on move, and show one less move for either side that had *
-* actually been played in the game. another bug also reversed the *
-* sign of a score whispered in analysis mode. recapture extension *
-* is disabled by default. to turn it on, it is necessary to use *
-* -DRECAPTURE when compiling search.c and option.c. LearnBook() *
-* has been modified to 'speed up' learning. see the comments in *
-* that module to see how it was changed. LearnResult() has been *
-* removed. LearnBook() is now used to do the same thing, except *
-
-(from main.c)
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-
-Specific questions can be directed to majordomo@cis.uab.edu, and in the
-body of this email, put the text "subscribe crafty-list" (without the
-quotes) which will subscribe to the crafty-list@cis.uab.edu mailing list,
-which covers lots of questions about the current goings-on in crafty, from
-problems, to installation questions, to future development goals.
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-How does Crafty work?
-
-Download the file "crafty.doc" which is a complete description of all of
-the commands for Crafty along with examples where needed. This covers
-*every* command in the current version of Crafty.
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-executable choices.
-
-wcrafty-*.exe is the executable you need to run crafty under
-windows, or under windows in a dos box.
-
-if you want tablebase support the standard executables provide this,
-but you must add egtb to the crafty.rc/.craftyrc file.
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-The Macintosh port of Crafty is available in the macintosh directory.
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-book database choices.
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-All of these book choices are in the common directory. Each book has its
-own sub-directory so that you can cd into the appropriate directory and then
-"mget *" to get everything you need.
-
-large.zip, medium.zip and small.zip are the raw input files to make the three
-different sized books. large produces a 60mb opening database with 100K GM
-games; medium produces a 30MB database, and small will produce a 1MB database.
-On my sparc-20, large takes about 7 minutes to build, medium around 3 minutes,
-and small is under minute. Note that you will need at least double this space
-to create the files, as temporary stuff is written to disk along the way, and
-then deleted later.
-
-There are two new files available, "rock.pgn" and "wall.pgn". These files
-are still .gz compressed archives, but because they are so large (rock.pgn
-has over 660,000 games in it) they are broken into pieces. These pieces
-must be combined before they are unzipped. In windows, use a dos box and
-enter this: copy rock.01+rock.02+...+rock.10 rock.gz. Then ungzip rock.gz
-and you should be set. "wall" is about one-third the size of "rock" if you
-want something smaller.
-
-There is a newer book, called 'enormous' that can be downloaded in
-pieces (this from Dan's FTP site). The pieces are a,b,c,d,e and
-correspond to ECO classifications. Altogether this is roughly one
-gigabyte after it unzipped, which can make a truly huge book if you
-are not careful.
-
-Note that small.txt was made from opening textbooks, and, as a result,
-does not have the PGN "Result" tag. This causes some book random modes
-to not work correctly because crafty won't play an opening that has no
-wins to its credit. Either don't use small for the present, or else make
-your own from a select group of pgn games, maybe the first 5000 games from
-medium.zip as an example. (for more specific info, see crafty.doc)
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-crafty
-book create <filename> 60 3
-quit
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-<filename> should be replaced by what you get when you unzip the book file
-of your choice.
-
-start.zip contains a small file that is used to create books.bin.
-books.bin is created as follows:
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-crafty
-books create start.pgn 60
-quit
-
-this file contains suggested openings that fit Crafty's "open" style of
-play better. You can edit/modify this at will, and it takes a fraction of
-a second to re-build after modification, so the big book file can be left
-alone.
-
-Note that the "60" is arbitrary, and is used to cut book lines off at roughly
-60 plies. you "can" say 500, so that the entire games will be stored, but you
-need even more disk space. you can also reduce this number to 30 (15 moves for
-each side to conserve disk space as needed, since the book will contain far
-fewer positions.
-
-Note that you can also look in the current directory (v15 at present) and
-you will find a book.bin and books.bin file already built from rock.pgn
-and ready to use. These are under 10mb together and are ready to use.
-You only have to put them in the same directory with crafty and you will
-be set to play.
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-crafty.zip is a zip file that contains a complete set of source and
-header files for crafty and a Linux makefile that you will have to tweak for
-your machine. ditto for crafty.tar.gz just using gzip and tar instead for
-those that don't have plain zip.
-
-Note that you probably need only change the #define LINUX to #define SUN
-for example, and it will self-configure for SUN. Any of the machines in
-the comments can be done like this. others may take some playing, but the
-options are commented to help.
-
-If you are using gcc/Linux, the included Makefile should fit your needs
-perfectly, since linux uses gcc. NOTICE: if you are running linux, and
-have a gcc earlier than 2.6.3, crafty probably will compile cleanly but
-won't run. Early versions seem to have a defective implementation of the
-long long data type, which breaks crafty completely. Note that there is
-a linux version of crafty (crafty.linux) here compiled with gcc-i 2.6.3, if
-you have this problem. You will get an error when you start it, about the
-wrong version of ld.so.n, but it seems to run correctly. Note also, that
-I use gcc-i2.6.3, the pentium-specific version of gcc that is kept on
-most linux archive sites in the development directory. If you are
-not using this, you will have to modify CFLAGS to get rid of the pentium
-optimization options and simply use -On where n=the level that produces
-the fastest code (you'll have to try several to find the best usually.)
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-It is highly recommended that you use the latest version of Xboard
-or Winboard from Tim Mann.
-
- http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html
-
-To use Crafty with xboard, you do the following:
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-xboard -fcp crafty
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-This will let you play using the mouse, etc.
-
-To set the time control, try this:
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-xboard -fcp crafty -tc nm -mps mvs
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-replace nm by the number of minutes in the time control you'd like to
-play under, mvs should be the number of moves in a time control. Blitz
-might be something like -tc 5 -mvs 60 to play 60 moves in 5 minutes, then 60
-more moves in 5 minutes, etc.
-
-to use it to play on ics/fics/etc, you can
-
-xboard -ics -zp -fcp "crafty ..." and create a .icsrc file, first line is
-login id, second line is password, remaining lines are simple force-fed to
-the server to set things like your formula, etc.
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