Crafty 25.1 Release

[pferd]

Thanks for this release. I did make a quick gauntlet and this version does look much better than the predecessor.

I use 240/300+3 as a time control and crafty played most of its moves very quickly. In most games it ended up with more than 5 minutes left on the clock. I think with a better time management it could have hold some games to a draw.

[Luis Babboni]

Bob Hyatt and team - Tracy Reigle, Peter Skinner and yours truly, are please to announce the release of Crafty-v25.1

Thanks poeple!
And glad to see in the main Crafty´s web a link to that nice GUI!

[bob]

Thanks for this release. I did make a quick gauntlet and this version does look much better than the predecessor.

I use 240/300+3 as a time control and crafty played most of its moves very quickly. In most games it ended up with more than 5 minutes left on the clock. I think with a better time management it could have hold some games to a draw.

I don't quite follow what 240/300+3 means... is that 240 moves in 5 minutes + 3 sec inc? BTW I do not think the time usage was modified from what it was in 25.0...

[pferd]

Thanks for this release. I did make a quick gauntlet and this version does look much better than the predecessor.

I use 240/300+3 as a time control and crafty played most of its moves very quickly. In most games it ended up with more than 5 minutes left on the clock. I think with a better time management it could have hold some games to a draw.

I don't quite follow what 240/300+3 means... is that 240 moves in 5 minutes + 3 sec inc? BTW I do not think the time usage was modified from what it was in 25.0...

Yes, that means 240 moves in 5 minutes and 3 sec per moves inc. I played a couple of games with 40 moves in 1 min + 3 sec/move and in some of the games crafty ended up having over 2 min at move 41 which looks odd to me.

With x mins/game + 3 sec/move the time management does look much better.

[AdminX]

Thanks Dann..if possible when make a windows compile to include a bmi2 compile!

JP.

Does anyone know of a location to download a BMI compile?

[jpqy]

Here you have a pop+bmi2 compile:

https://mega.nz/#!yRJThIzA!6_2QA0FItUgj ... gKLBnAIAMI

PS. copy complete link to get your download..

JP.

[AdminX]

Here you have a pop+bmi2 compile:

https://mega.nz/#!yRJThIzA!6_2QA0FItUgj ... gKLBnAIAMI

PS. copy complete link to get your download..

JP.

Thank You.

[bob]

Thanks for this release. I did make a quick gauntlet and this version does look much better than the predecessor.

I use 240/300+3 as a time control and crafty played most of its moves very quickly. In most games it ended up with more than 5 minutes left on the clock. I think with a better time management it could have hold some games to a draw.

I don't quite follow what 240/300+3 means... is that 240 moves in 5 minutes + 3 sec inc? BTW I do not think the time usage was modified from what it was in 25.0...

Yes, that means 240 moves in 5 minutes and 3 sec per moves inc. I played a couple of games with 40 moves in 1 min + 3 sec/move and in some of the games crafty ended up having over 2 min at move 41 which looks odd to me.

With x mins/game + 3 sec/move the time management does look much better.

the 240/5 + 3sec is a bit unbalanced. That is on the order of about 1 second per move + 3 secs increment, which means the increment is the main part of the time per move.

I'll take a look although having 2 minutes left at move 40 seems reasonable when you start with 240 moves and 5 minutes. I would not expect it to burn all of that base time in the first 40-60 moves. I would suggest a more natural time control, maybe 60/1+inc,

[wolfman]

It is a pity that non of the compiles are working for me.
Perhaps Jim Ablett can make working compiles.
Eran vd Wolf

[Canoike]

I wish the doc to be updated because I like to tweak with the parameters. Yhe crafy.hlp is a bit too short and the one at the official website too old.

Thanks.