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CraftyCrafty is a chess program written by professor Robert Hyatt. It is directly derived from Cray Blitz, winner of the 1983 and 1986 World Computer Chess Championships. Crafty is a very strong chess engine: its ELO rating is about 2600. Crafty board implementation is internally based on bitboards, 64-bit data structures. The source code of Crafty, written entirely in ANSI C, is available for free, so any computer chess enthusiast can take a look at it. Crafty uses the XBoard protocol, and can also be run with the popular free chess interface Arena. Furthermore, there are special editions, CraftySE, which allow a huge amount of settings. Used with opening books, position learning function and important endgame table bases they play with a human style even on low amateur levels. This is what makes Crafty so popular. In the World Computer Chess Championships 2004 Crafty won the fourth place with same amounts of points that the third, Fritz 8. If a won match would bring three points and a draw one point then Crafty even had won the third place, as it tries to avoid draws and plays more aggresive endgame than others. The Championship was played with expensive hardware and a lot of time to think. Another strong point of Crafty is that it can play blitz matches very well, even for engines. Crafty is one of the programs included in the SPEC-CPU benchmark test. External links
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