How can I configure SOS and Crafty 17.11?

[Graham Banks]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Graham Banks at 18 June 2000 00:05:37:
I would like these programs to run through WinBoard with the following options/configurations? - hash 16 mb , ponder off , tournament book on , random off. Please help.
Graham.

[Mogens Larsen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Mogens Larsen at 18 June 2000 09:51:54:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: How can I configure SOS and Crafty 17.11? geschrieben von: / posted by: Graham Banks at 18 June 2000 00:05:37:

I would like these programs to run through WinBoard with the following options/configurations? - hash 16 mb , ponder off , tournament book on , random off. Please help.
Graham.

That's quite a complicated question. Here's the WinBoard.ini lines:
/firstChessProgramNames="
\"Crafty_1711\" /fd=c:\\Path
\"SOS c:\\Tb\" /fd=c:\\Path
"
/secondChessProgramNames="
\"Crafty_1711\" /sd=c:\\Path
\"SOS c:\\Tb\" /sd=c:\\Path
"
Note 1: If you don't have tablebases installed remove c:\\Tb from SOS lines.
Note 2: The path can have the following appearence:
/fd=c:\\Engines\\Crafty (Crafty_1711.exe placed in C:Engines\Crafty), or
\"/fd=c:\\Program Files\\WinBoard\\Crafty\" where the \" at each end are essential due to the two word format of Program Files. The Crafty17_11.exe file is placed in the c:\Program Files\WinBoard\Crafty directory.
That's all you need for SOS to work. Not a lot of tweaking potential.
Crafty can be configured easily using a file called Crafty.rc (only rc file extension), which can look like this.
With tablebases:
hash 24M
hashp 8M
cache 2M
drawscore=0
log off
ponder off
book on
book random 1
book width 5
learn 7
resign 5
tbpath=c:\Tb
egtb
exit
Without:
hash 24M
hashp 8M
cache 0M
drawscore=0
log off
ponder off
book on
book random 1
book width 5
learn 7
resign 5
exit
The different commands are explained in the Crafty documentation available at Hyatt's ftpsite. I hope this helps. Post again if there's any problems.
Best wishes...
Mogens