Crafty 25.0 Release

[Graham Banks]

I know of absolutely no changes dealing with the crafty.rc file, compared to 24.0 and 24.1 and earlier. Absolutely no idea what is going on. I have exhaustively tested with my cluster referee program and with xboard. Not a hiccup in millions of games. What's up with windows, suddenly, I have no idea. If it gives you problems, obviously don't worry with it in your testing, assuming you use windows rather than Linux...

I assume we can eventually figure out what is up. I suppose I can try to cobble together a (gag) windows machine to test on...

Daniel Jose's 64-bit compile works fine for me on both popcount and non-popcount machines, so I'm using that at present.
I'm using Windows 7 64-bit.

[bob]

I know of absolutely no changes dealing with the crafty.rc file, compared to 24.0 and 24.1 and earlier. Absolutely no idea what is going on. I have exhaustively tested with my cluster referee program and with xboard. Not a hiccup in millions of games. What's up with windows, suddenly, I have no idea. If it gives you problems, obviously don't worry with it in your testing, assuming you use windows rather than Linux...

I assume we can eventually figure out what is up. I suppose I can try to cobble together a (gag) windows machine to test on...

Daniel Jose's 64-bit compile works fine for me on both popcount and non-popcount machines, so I'm using that at present.
I'm using Windows 7 64-bit.

Just so you have the 12/27 version, you should be OK. But others are reporting that version is crashing, doing weird things with fine #70, etc, but only under windoze... Not sure what is up yet...

[Graham Banks]

I know of absolutely no changes dealing with the crafty.rc file, compared to 24.0 and 24.1 and earlier. Absolutely no idea what is going on. I have exhaustively tested with my cluster referee program and with xboard. Not a hiccup in millions of games. What's up with windows, suddenly, I have no idea. If it gives you problems, obviously don't worry with it in your testing, assuming you use windows rather than Linux...

I assume we can eventually figure out what is up. I suppose I can try to cobble together a (gag) windows machine to test on...

Daniel Jose's 64-bit compile works fine for me on both popcount and non-popcount machines, so I'm using that at present.
I'm using Windows 7 64-bit.

Just so you have the 12/27 version, you should be OK. But others are reporting that version is crashing, doing weird things with fine #70, etc, but only under windoze... Not sure what is up yet...

I'm using the latest version that Daniel posted - crafty25_64 (dated 28/12).

[Dann Corbit]

I have just started a tournament to test some crafty versions.
Early indications are that JA versions perform best.

Code: Select all

  Program               Elo    +   -   Games   Score   Av.Op.  Draws
1 Crafty-25-dc        : 3186  224 196    13    80.8 %   2936   23.1 %
2 Crafty-25-32-ja     : 3070  153 137    11    63.6 %   2973   54.5 %
3 Crafty-25-64-ja     : 3038  210 206    11    54.5 %   3006   18.2 %
4 Crafty25_64n        : 3033  163 163    11    50.0 %   3033   45.5 %
5 Crafty25_64         : 3032  180 177    11    54.5 %   3000   36.4 %
6 Crafty-25-64-pop-ja : 3019  185 179    13    57.7 %   2965   23.1 %
7 Crafty25_32n        : 2869  188 205    13    26.9 %   3043   23.1 %
8 Crafty25_32         : 2780  228 275    13    15.4 %   3076   15.4 %

[Dann Corbit]

Hi Bob,

I didn't fix anything. Just compiled as I always do for Windows with my old retro software - Intel compiler 12 + MSVC 2008 host.

Jim.

I understand. It seems that the newer Microsoft compiler has some sort of an issue with something inside Crafty...

I can confirm that the latest MS compiler has issues.
When I do the VS 2015 build, it crashes in EGTB access.

It seems that the Intel and gcc compilers work OK on this code base.

[MikeB]

For the Mac - xBoard engine - 4 flavors in a 1MB download:

Latest Macs
Later Macs
Most Macs
No EGTB

Crafty 25.0 Mac Exe's

You may have to change permissions:

'chmod 755 <filename>' for the GUI to recognize the app.

Updated link - one version for all. Just updated 10:34PM EST 12/28

Crafty v25.0 Mac

[Modern Times]

Hi Bob,

I didn't fix anything. Just compiled as I always do for Windows with my old retro software - Intel compiler 12 + MSVC 2008 host.

Jim.

Hi Jim,

the non-popcount exe doesn't recognise the rc file under ChessGUI.

Hi Graham,

that's odd seeing as it reads the file on the command line and in other chess interfaces. I'll see if I can replicate the problem and see what's going on.

Jim.

The issue is this: ChessGUI has a control on the screen where you can enter an engine's configuration file path and name. When you go to populate it, a file windows opens up for you to point to the file. With Daniel's compile (and everything else) the file windows has "all types", i.e. *.* so you can select it. With Jim's compile, the file Window opens up with Ini file as the type, and *.ini, and that cannot be changed. So you can't point to the file. Very odd. But it doesn't really matter, the engine reads the rc file anyway at initialisation and you just edit it with Notepad first.

[Werner]

Thanks Jim,
and all the best to you for 2016!

[supersharp77]

Thanks Jim,
and all the best to you for 2016!

Thanks Jim for the new Crafty 25.0 ja compiles.......ran a series of test match games with Daniel Jose Compile......some improvement noted in the engine..promising results......rc file error still ongoing. AR

Engine Matches 1, 5'+5 2015

Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Sjeng 12.7 wb 2500 2.0 - 0.0 +2/-0/=0 100.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Crafty 14.11 wb. 2400 2.0 - 0.0 +2/-0/=0 100.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Fritz 6 2575 1.0 - 1.0 +1/-1/=0 50.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Crafty 18.15mpc wb. 2550 2.0 - 0.0 +2/-0/=0 100.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Junior 7 2625 1.5 - 0.5 +1/-0/=1 75.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Crafty 20.14 w32 2575 2.0 - 0.0 +2/-0/=0 100.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Stockfish 2.1.1 JA. 2650 0.0 - 2.0 +0/-2/=0 0.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Hakkapeliitta 3.0 w32. 2675 1.0 - 1.0 +0/-0/=2 50.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - SarosBlitz.exe v.1.0 2675 1.0 - 1.0 +1/-1/=0 50.00%
Crafty 25.0 wb. 2660 - Houdini 1.5a w32-Osipov 2675 0.5 - 1.5 +0/-1/=1 25.00%

Crafty 25.0 Test Games pgn

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=880 ... 5208016583

[Jim Ablett]

Hi Bob,

I didn't fix anything. Just compiled as I always do for Windows with my old retro software - Intel compiler 12 + MSVC 2008 host.

Jim.

Hi Jim,

the non-popcount exe doesn't recognise the rc file under ChessGUI.

Hi Graham,

that's odd seeing as it reads the file on the command line and in other chess interfaces. I'll see if I can replicate the problem and see what's going on.

Jim.

The issue is this: ChessGUI has a control on the screen where you can enter an engine's configuration file path and name. When you go to populate it, a file windows opens up for you to point to the file. With Daniel's compile (and everything else) the file windows has "all types", i.e. *.* so you can select it. With Jim's compile, the file Window opens up with Ini file as the type, and *.ini, and that cannot be changed. So you can't point to the file. Very odd. But it doesn't really matter, the engine reads the rc file anyway at initialisation and you just edit it with Notepad first.

Sounds like a permissions problem of some sort.

Jim.