Happy to hear this news. Great work. Well done guys.
Best wishes regards.
Crafty 25.3 Release
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Hello.has anyone any crafty version for android than really works ?.I have tested almost 10 versions and it never works.I have android 6 in tablet and android 9 in smartphone.
Thank you very much
Thank you very much
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Can you give an example of a Crafty version you tried? What GUI did you use for Android? Crafty played successfully in all the Android Chess Engine Tournaments that I ran a while back.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Hi.abik wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:14 amCan you give an example of a Crafty version you tried? What GUI did you use for Android? Crafty played successfully in all the Android Chess Engine Tournaments that I ran a while back.
I tried Droidfish GUI and all versions than you can find here.
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A% ... v42?page=6
and otheres versions than i can not remember from other pages.
I tried Crafty 25.3 too.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Crafty 25.3 is not so new. I had compiled it for my linux system on september 18 2017. If you changed something, renumber it.
By the way, it would be a good idea to give a sample .craftyrc file.
Thanks for continuing this great software.
The old version I had compiled 2 years ago :
By the way, it would be a good idea to give a sample .craftyrc file.
Thanks for continuing this great software.
The old version I had compiled 2 years ago :
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./crafty25.3
EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
hash table memory = 512M bytes (32M entries).
pawn hash table memory = 192M bytes (8M entries).
choose from book moves randomly (using weights.)
choose from 5 best moves.
..book random set to 1.
SYZYGY EGTB access enabled, 5 piece TBs found
EGTB probe depth set to 0
pondering enabled.
book learning enabled {-100,+100}
Crafty v25.3
machine has 4 processors
White(1):
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
I recently downloaded crafty25.3.exe from your Github page, and found the elo feature does not work. I added "elo = 1500" to the crafty.rc file, but when I run crafty25.3.exe in a Windows command prompt window, I get the messageMikeB wrote: ↑Sat Aug 17, 2019 7:21 pm The official Crafty has been updated by Bob Hyatt to address two significant bugs:
Also with the changes, Crafty now supports 7 man syzygy and will even tell you if you have an incomplete tablebase as it told me.Code: Select all
* 25.3 Two bugs fixed that were significant. First, the older syzygy * * probe code I was using had some sort of bug it seems. I replaced * * it with the most recent and that solved tb probe failures dealing * * with an enpassant capture that was the only legal move. Once * * that was fixed, I then found that I had not factored in the * * captured piece = pawn for EP captures (where I was calling the * * probe code). This caused a new bug once the tbprobe.c code was * * updated. That is now fixed also, leaving everything working as * * it should, so far as I know through a lot of testing. *
I am honored to host the official crafty source as a courtesy to Bob since he has retired, as most of you know, and is no longer able to host his source on the UAB University servers.Code: Select all
Mac-Pro:cluster.mfb michaelbyrne$ crafty unable to open book file [./book.bin]. book is disabled hash table memory = 256M bytes (16M entries). pawn hash table memory = 12M bytes (512K entries). Incomplete tablebase file KRRBBvKN..rtbz info string Incomplete tablebase file KRRBBvKN..rtbz SYZYGY EGTB access enabled, 7 piece TBs found max threads set to 12. book file disabled. do not offer draws decline draw offers noise level set to 0.00 seconds. pondering enabled. disabled resignations.
The "Play by Elo" Crafty version will continue as a separate branch which I will update in the near future - but I cannot today as I will be off to a wedding in few hours.
If those who are to compile crafty 25.3 for Windows , 64bit, 32 bit with bmi2, popcnt and plain - that would be greatly appreciated
You may drop off the executables below and I will gather them and make a release on Github from the compiled versions.
https://www.dropbox.com/request/OM3yOz4Qvb4XLUSQpcwh
Please note that Crafty should only be used with "real cores" and when you compile crafty, that's setting can be adjusted in the makefile "-DCPUS=x", where x represents the number of real cores on your computer.
SOURCE:
https://github.com/MichaelB7/Crafty
ERROR "elo = 1500" is unknown rc-file option
I tried many permutations of that command, including
elo = "1500"
elo 1500
elo "1500"
but they all produce the same result.
I have found Crafty to be a very strong non-neural net chess engine. It beats Stockfish 11, the last version that did not use a neural net, every time at 15 seconds per move. I believe that a chess engine programmed with human chess knowlege is more likely to play human-like moves, and I would like to use Crafty with the elo feature enabled. I would appreciate any help you can provide.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
That claim simply cannot be true?Steve Brown wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:09 am I have found Crafty to be a very strong non-neural net chess engine. It beats Stockfish 11, the last version that did not use a neural net, every time at 15 seconds per move. I believe that a chess engine programmed with human chess knowlege is more likely to play human-like moves, and I would like to use Crafty with the elo feature enabled. I would appreciate any help you can provide.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Aside from your reply being of no help whatsoever, on what basis do you accuse me of lying? I set up several games between Crafty 25.3 and Stockfish 11 on the Arena chess GUI, and Crafty won all games impressively. Feel free to try that yourself. Note that the current version of Stockfish is 17, and version 11 was the current version several years ago, before Stockfish began using a neural network in its evaluation. Crafty is a direct descendent of Cray Blitz, which won several world computer championships.AndrewGrant wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:24 amThat claim simply cannot be true?Steve Brown wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 2:09 am I have found Crafty to be a very strong non-neural net chess engine. It beats Stockfish 11, the last version that did not use a neural net, every time at 15 seconds per move. I believe that a chess engine programmed with human chess knowlege is more likely to play human-like moves, and I would like to use Crafty with the elo feature enabled. I would appreciate any help you can provide.
I really would like help getting the elo feature of Crafty to work.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
Stockfish 11 64-bit 3499
Crafty 25.3 64-bit 2929
Your results sound fake to me. Sorry.
Crafty 25.3 64-bit 2929
Your results sound fake to me. Sorry.
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Re: Crafty 25.3 Release
The results I got were the results I got playing the two engines against each other on my computer. I don't know why Crafty 25.3 beat Stockfish 11 despite being more than 500 elo points lower. Maybe the Arena GUI skewed the results in an unforeseen way.Graham Banks wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:26 am Stockfish 11 64-bit 3499
Crafty 25.3 64-bit 2929
Your results sound fake to me. Sorry.