Crafty Resign threshold

[Spock]

Does anyone know if it is possible to make Crafty resign quite late, or not at all, i.e. let the game go all the way ?

All I see is this from craftychess.com

"resign 9 which will make Crafty resign roughly five moves after the score drops below -9.000"

I wonder if "resign 20" say is valid, and that would translate roughly to five moves after the score drops below -20.000 ?

[Spock]

Yes, resign 20 is valid. And resign 0 tells Crafty never to resign.

Thanks, I'll try resign 0

Edit: I wonder if that works for Frenzee..

[Spock]

And resign 0 tells Crafty never to resign.

Hmm... "resign 0" doesn't stop Crafty resigning here

[Charles B.]

And resign 0 tells Crafty never to resign.

Hmm... "resign 0" doesn't stop Crafty resigning here

Did you try resign=0? That works for me. Maybe the equal sign makes a difference?

Edit:
I was having the same problem and Dr. Hyatt replied in this post (Maybe the link will work).

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 310#247310

[Spock]

Did you try resign=0? That works for me. Maybe the equal sign makes a difference?

Edit:
I was having the same problem and Dr. Hyatt replied in this post (Maybe the link will work).

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 310#247310

Yes that works !!

I do recall that some parameters use the = sign and some don't. You have to be careful...

[bob]

Any number is legal. To turn resignations off, just use "resign=0" and it will never resign and will play the game out to the bitter end. Probably a waste of time if you are playing tournaments or testing. I'd think that even resign=9 is pretty safe.

[bob]

Did you try resign=0? That works for me. Maybe the equal sign makes a difference?

Edit:
I was having the same problem and Dr. Hyatt replied in this post (Maybe the link will work).

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 310#247310

Yes that works !!

I do recall that some parameters use the = sign and some don't. You have to be careful...

It should make no difference:

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

White(1): resign=9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1): resign 9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1):

Either works fine. sd=8 and sd n are parsed the same way using strtok() which allows either an = or a space (or even a slash) as a delimiter...

[Spock]

It should make no difference:

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

White(1): resign=9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1): resign 9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1):

Either works fine. sd=8 and sd n are parsed the same way using strtok() which allows either an = or a space (or even a slash) as a delimiter...

Well it did here

Double clicking the exe and reading the text that comes up when Crafty starts, with "resign 0" there was no mention of resign being disabled, with "resign=0" it DID say that resgnation was disabled,

[bob]

It should make no difference:

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

White(1): resign=9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1): resign 9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1):

Either works fine. sd=8 and sd n are parsed the same way using strtok() which allows either an = or a space (or even a slash) as a delimiter...

Well it did here

Double clicking the exe and reading the text that comes up when Crafty starts, with "resign 0" there was no mention of resign being disabled, with "resign=0" it DID say that resgnation was disabled,

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

White(1): resign 0
disabled resignations.
White(1): resign=0
disabled resignations.
White(1):

Should make no difference at all, and does not here either. Always make sure the last line in your crafty.rc file is blank, as wordpad will fail to put a CR/LF on the last line and that will cause it to not get parsed.

[bob]

It should make no difference:

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

White(1): resign=9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1): resign 9
resign after 5 consecutive moves with score < -9.
White(1):

Either works fine. sd=8 and sd n are parsed the same way using strtok() which allows either an = or a space (or even a slash) as a delimiter...

Well it did here

Double clicking the exe and reading the text that comes up when Crafty starts, with "resign 0" there was no mention of resign being disabled, with "resign=0" it DID say that resgnation was disabled,

However, either works if you issue the resign command AFTER you started Crafty from the command line (that is, no resign command in the rc file).
Two different ways of parsing, it seems.

Nope. All are parsed by the same code. Here is a run with both "resign=0" and "resign 0" in my .craftyrc:

crafty% crafty
found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
pondering disabled.
noise level set to 0.
book learning disabled
disabled resignations.
disabled resignations.

Crafty v23.0 (1 cpus)

Notice it picked up both.