Cray Blitz

[Alexander Schmidt]

Hi,

did anyone manage to compile CrayBlitz on Linux? I tried it with gfortran and fort77 but I am a totally newbie with Fortran.

fort77 -O -w -pipe -c options.f
options:
optlog2:
optitoc:
/tmp/fort77-3905-1.c22: error: conflicting types for ‘optitoc_’
3036 | /* Character */ VOID optitoc_(char *ret_val, ftnlen ret_val_len, char *char__,
| ^~~~~~~~
/tmp/fort77-3905-1.c:686:33: note: previous declaration of ‘optitoc_’ was here
686 | extern /* Character */ VOID optitoc_(char *, ftnlen, integer *);
| ^~~~~~~~
/usr/bin/fort77: aborting compilation

Did anyone try to make it Winboard compatible?

http://www.craftychess.com/downloads/crayblitz/

BTW: The windows executable by Jim Ablett doesn't work properly here (ubuntu/wine). It always moves instantly and it crashes often.

Best wishes,
Alex

[Dann Corbit]

Matt Hull is doing that conversion. There are updates in this thread:
http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.p ... cray+blitz

[Alexander Schmidt]

Many thanks for the interesting link!

But I am more interested in the CrayBlitz version I posted. Would be great to create a winboard compatible version that emulates the speed of the Cray at that times.

Best wishes,
Alex

[JohnW]

Anyone know how you enter the moves? No matter what way I enter it, it responds the move is illegal.
It asks me if it should play white, no matter if I enter "Y" or "YES" it tells me it's my move.
Then when I enter a move like d4 or d2-d4 it tells it's illegal. I also tried Nf3 but it said it was illegal too.

[MikeB]

Anyone know how you enter the moves? No matter what way I enter it, it responds the move is illegal.
It asks me if it should play white, no matter if I enter "Y" or "YES" it tells me it's my move.
Then when I enter a move like d4 or d2-d4 it tells it's illegal. I also tried Nf3 but it said it was illegal too.

try "d2d4" - no hyphen

[Alexander Schmidt]

Anyone know how you enter the moves? No matter what way I enter it, it responds the move is illegal.
It asks me if it should play white, no matter if I enter "Y" or "YES" it tells me it's my move.
Then when I enter a move like d4 or d2-d4 it tells it's illegal. I also tried Nf3 but it said it was illegal too.

if you play white, it actually is your move If you play black, you have to say "go".

Moves are done by short notation: e4, Pe4 or e2e4 should work.

Does this thing calculate under windows or also play instandly?

[JohnW]

Ok, well I figured out how to enter the moves but something seems out of whack. I had it play against the old Mephisto Amsterdam (simulator) on my PC and Cray Blitz just blundered one piece after the other. Cray Blitz played white, the moves were
my move 1. d3
your move 1. ... d5
my move 2. Nh3
your move 2. ... Bxh3
my move 3. e3??
your move 3. ... Bf5
my move 4. Be2
your move 4. ... e5
my move 5. Bf3
your move 5. ... Nc6
my move 6. a3
your move 6. ... Nf6
my move 7. b4
your move 7. ... e4
my move 8. a4
your move 8. ... exf3
my move 9. Bb2
your move 9. ... Bxb4+
my move 10. Nd2

development completed.

your move 10. ... fxg2
my move 11. d4
d4 opening recognized.

I quit here since it was pretty obvious that something is not working correctly

[Alexander Schmidt]

Ok, well I figured out how to enter the moves but something seems out of whack. I had it play against the old Mephisto Amsterdam (simulator) on my PC and Cray Blitz just blundered one piece after the other. Cray Blitz played white, the moves were

Thanks, basically the same happens here.