Engine suggestions: Human elo ~1800

[Hood]

With the small constraint that it simply doesn't work in "any engine" offering that feature. That has already been written in this thread, but thank you for just claiming the opposite.

You welcome.
rgds H.

[Jim Ablett]

And to start crafty with a particular .rc file is just "C:> crafty.exe [file.rc]" ?

(assuming you're in the right directory of course...)

Crafty.exe & crafty.rc in same folder.

Jim.

What if I have 3 different .rc files, depending on my mood...
How do I pick the one I want?

I think Crafty just reads 'crafty.rc, so you'd have to make 3 separate folders,
each with crafty.exe & crafty.rc.

Jim.

[Volker Pittlik]

...
What if I have 3 different .rc files, depending on my mood...
How do I pick the one I want?

Renaming?

[govert]

...
What if I have 3 different .rc files, depending on my mood...
How do I pick the one I want?

Renaming?

Here's my use case:

I want to have 3 different crafty configurations accessible as different engines in a gui such as SCID or Arena.

What I am hearing from you is that I need 3 different directories, containing their separate crafty.exe and crafty.rc.

Is this correct?


EDIT: Jim, you answered my question. Didn't see it before I wrote this.

[Mark Mason]

Ruxy/Jim,

Thanks - but the links you have provided are for Tarrasch Toy engine v0.905 which I already have. I am after version 0.906 which looks to be a later release and looks a bit stronger (1800 rather than 1500). It is this one I am trying to find a download link for.

Thanks,

Mark

[Volker Pittlik]

...
What I am hearing from you is that I need 3 different directories, containing their separate crafty.exe and crafty.rc.

Is this correct?

No. Edit you crafty.rc and save it crafty.rc.1. Other settings put in crafty.rc.2 ... crafty.rc.n. You can save them all in one directory. Before you start just replace the crafty.rc with crafty.rc.<of-your-choice>. I suggest to copy the rc.n so that you can't overwrite them with each other.

vp

[Jim Ablett]

Ruxy/Jim,

Thanks - but the links you have provided are for Tarrasch Toy engine v0.905 which I already have. I am after version 0.906 which looks to be a later release and looks a bit stronger (1800 rather than 1500). It is this one I am trying to find a download link for.

Thanks,

Mark

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/tarrasc ... e-only.zip

Jim.

[Mark Mason]

Great - thanks Jim.

[alpha123]

Javascript chess engines are pretty competitive with humans around 1500 ELO. Give this a try http://forwardcoding.com/projects/ajaxchess/chess.html.

Play it in IE 8 and it will be about 1400, in Firefox and Opera closer to 1500-1600, and in Chrome about 1800.

See, adjustable strength with nothing more than changing the browser .

Peter

[Jim Walker]

Just look at all this crap to try to get Crafty working. It's insane! I would never recomend Crafty for anyone. It's not worth the effort. Best bets are Chessmaster (almost any version) and Rebel. Rebel is realistic in time useage while playing lower Elo games. You can find an old version of Chessmaster either free or real cheap ($10).