Originally posted by LanndonKaneThere's not that much difference between these engines, Fruit is rated 2825 and Crafty 2657 (ratings from wikipedia). If you want to go over your games to see where you went wrong, or see if you played as well as you thought you did then either will do.
If you really want a powerful engine to analyze for you, get Fruit 2.1 or TogaII.
They are faster and more powerful than crafty.
The big disadvantage with Fruit is that it is no longer open source (as of 2.1) and is basically now a comercial engine. So for one thing it should be compared with comercial rather than free engines. Also, if you want it for free then 2.1 is the end of the line, whereas Crafty remains as free software; so at some point I'll be able to upgrade from 20.11 to a newer (and hopefully better) version and all I'll need to do is download the source and type "make".
If I understood right, you are trying to analyse played games with Crafty . If so, I have two suggestions:
1.) Have you considered using Crafty with Winboard?
or
2.) Use annotate -command after starting up Crafty. You can let the engine analyse your game(s) over night.
There are few settings you need to give:
- The name of the pgn –file.
- The colour that is to be annotated (w, b or wb)
- The move number to start the annotation (0 if beginning, 5 if there are 5 opening moves etc.)
- The comment margin (for example 0.5 if you want Crafty to make a suggestion when it found a move that is half a pawn better)
- Evaluation time in seconds
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An example:
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{ Starting Crafty }
crafty.exe
{ I want to annotate test.pgn for both colours, I want the annotation to start from move 5, I want crafty to give a suggestion if it found a move that is evaluated 0.5 better than the text. The evaluation time is 10 seconds. }
annotate test.pgn wb 5 0.5 10
{ Now Crafty annotates the game(s) and finally creates a file test.pgn.can }
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Here is an example of annoated game (test.pgn.can) :
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[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "freechess.org"]
[Date "2006.03.17"]
[White "bahus"]
[WhiteElo "1873"]
[Black "Relu"]
[BlackElo "1908E"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[Annotator "Crafty v19.3"]
{annotating both black and white moves.}
{using a scoring margin of +0.50 pawns.}
{search time limit is 10.00}
1. e4 d6
2. d4 Nf6
3. Nc3 g6
4. f4 Bg7
5. Nf3 c5
6. Bb5+ Bd7
7. e5 Ng4
8. e6 fxe6
9. Ng5 Bxb5
10. Nxe6
({10:+0.00} 10. Nxe6 Bxd4 11. Nxd8 Bf2+ 12. Kd2 Be3+ 13. Ke1 Bf2+ 14. Kd2 $10)
({10:+0.89} 10. Nxb5 Qa5+ 11. c3 Qxb5 12. Nxe6 Na6 13. Qxg4 Bf6 14. dxc5 Qd3 15. cxd6 exd6 $16)
10. ... Bxd4
11. Nxd8 Bf2+
1/2-1/2
- bahus
Originally posted by cmsMasterTry using Crafty with SCID, I've had no problems with that.
It's just not working for me. At best I can get it to analyze ONE move, but this is the response I get....
Analyzing engine: Crafty 19-19
f7-f6 ...
6. ..f7-f6
Best move (Crafty 19-19): ...
Not found in: 00:05
6/17/2006 10:47:51 PM, Time for this analysis: 00:01:10, Rated time: 00:05
0 of 1 matching m ...[text shortened]... 2:01:25 AM Rated time: 00:05 = 5 Seconds
I have no idea why I can't get this thing to work!