Crafty UCI?

[JohnW]

Anyone know where I can get the latest Crafty.exe to create a UCI?

There has never been a UCI crafty. I think wbtouci (or something like that) will let it work as a UCI engine, just like polyglot lets a UCI engine work as a winboard-compatible engine.

Chessbase used to provide some versions of Crafty configured as native engines to run in their GUI.
Haven't seen one for a while though.

I think I must of collected them from past chessbase purchases like Shredder 8, Fritz 6 etc. I currently have Crafty uci versions 17.14,19.01,20.14 and 23.01

[JohnW]

I want to be able to make a UCI engine from Crafty via the Fritz 13 GUI.

Hello man !

You need four files:

1.-the original .exe (a WB engine);
2.-the Wb2Uci.exe (you have the link);
3.-the Wb2Uci.bmp- the logo
4.- a good Wb2Uci.eng file. Here it is (how to do):

-create a .txt document;
-copy/paste the below datas:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ENGINE]
Name=Crafty 23.7
Author=Robert Hyatt, USA
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=crafty-23.7-x86.exe (or x64- for the 64 bit engine)
Hash=128
HashCommand=hash %iM
InitString=resign 700 3
InitTime=5
MateScore=32767
OwnBook=true
TerminateHard=true
Visible=Ponder,Hash,OwnBook,Extras,Logfile,Computer
WhiteScore=true
log=off

[EXTRAS]
Tournament mode=mode|check|false|normal|tournament
Crafty log=log|check|false|off|on
Learning=learn|spin|7|0|7
NalimovPath=tbpath|string|d:\TBS
NalimovCache=cache %iM|spin|16|1|32
Swindle mode=swindle|check|false|off|on

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-save the text;
-rename the file like Wb2Uci.eng

At the end - enter on Fritz GUI - Engine(menu)/Create UCI engine/select Wb2Uci.exe like UCI engine.

That's all !

Have a nice day !

SilvianR

NR: Crafty x64 is by error renamed on Mr.Skinner site Crafty 27.3 !!!!!

Awesome, thank you! I will give that a try

[Charles Browne]

The download link is dead but there is this

http://www.general-files.org/download/g ... i.exe.html

For informational purposes, there are a few working download links on the archive site.

http://web.archive.org/web/200606212352 ... .3_B21.zip

The few links I tried on the below archive.org page also download:

http://tinyurl.com/me7b2cw

[Mithu]

I want to be able to make a UCI engine from Crafty via the Fritz 13 GUI.

Hello man !

You need four files:

1.-the original .exe (a WB engine);
2.-the Wb2Uci.exe (you have the link);
3.-the Wb2Uci.bmp- the logo
4.- a good Wb2Uci.eng file. Here it is (how to do):

-create a .txt document;
-copy/paste the below datas:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ENGINE]
Name=Crafty 23.7
Author=Robert Hyatt, USA
Filename=Wb2Uci.exe

[OPTIONS]
Program=crafty-23.7-x86.exe (or x64- for the 64 bit engine)
Hash=128
HashCommand=hash %iM
InitString=resign 700 3
InitTime=5
MateScore=32767
OwnBook=true
TerminateHard=true
Visible=Ponder,Hash,OwnBook,Extras,Logfile,Computer
WhiteScore=true
log=off

[EXTRAS]
Tournament mode=mode|check|false|normal|tournament
Crafty log=log|check|false|off|on
Learning=learn|spin|7|0|7
NalimovPath=tbpath|string|d:\TBS
NalimovCache=cache %iM|spin|16|1|32
Swindle mode=swindle|check|false|off|on

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-save the text;
-rename the file like Wb2Uci.eng

At the end - enter on Fritz GUI - Engine(menu)/Create UCI engine/select Wb2Uci.exe like UCI engine.

That's all !

Have a nice day !

SilvianR

NR: Crafty x64 is by error renamed on Mr.Skinner site Crafty 27.3 !!!!!

Just how/where do you get all this info from?

[Sylwy]

Just how/where do you get all this info from?

Hey man !

Simple ! By years & passion face to computer chess. Simple ?

Best to you !

SilvianR

[Sylwy]

Hello !

For the 64 bit version you need the Wb2Uci.exe from 23 June 2007 (245.760 bytes). You can find it in this archive (of Mr. Jim Ablett):

http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... W/ARCHIVE/

Just rename it from Shallow.... in "Wb2Uci.exe" !

Have a nice day !

SilvianR

[phenri]

Hello !

For the 64 bit version you need the Wb2Uci.exe from 23 June 2007 (245.760 bytes). You can find it in this archive (of Mr. Jim Ablett):

http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... W/ARCHIVE/

Just rename it from Shallow.... in "Wb2Uci.exe" !

Have a nice day !

SilvianR

Good to know. Thank you

[Sylwy]

Hello !

For the 64 bit version you need the Wb2Uci.exe from 23 June 2007 (245.760 bytes). You can find it in this archive (of Mr. Jim Ablett):

http://kirr.homeunix.org/chess/engines/ ... W/ARCHIVE/

Just rename it from Shallow.... in "Wb2Uci.exe" !

Have a nice day !

SilvianR

Good to know. Thank you

Because I like the complete information:

don't forget to put into the folder the associated files with the original WB .exe:

-the configuration file (.rc);
-the book.

SilvianR

[Mithu]

Thank you Maestro Ruxy!
I have a doubt for you (or anyone who can help). I am unable to see a way to get this option working Evaluation asymmetry which is documented here http://www.cis.uab.edu/hyatt/craftydoc.html -

evaluation asymmetry 25 will increase the king safety scores for the opponent only, meaning it will pay less attention to its own king safety than to that of its opponent. This will make it play more aggressively.
Any idea how I can get it to be tuned as a tweak-able parameter?
TIA...

[jarkkop]

You can use Crafty's personalities feature and create your own crafty.cpf text file which crafty loads when it starts. You can can almost any parameters in evaluation code.

use

pers save

to get default file to edit

and

pers list

to what you can change and the current values.