Crafty

Crafty is a with 1,200 MHz [http://web.telia.com/~u85924109/ssdf/].

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 interfaces WinBoard or [http://playwitharena.com/ Arena].

Furthermore, there are special editions, CraftySE, which allow a huge number 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 as the third place finisher, Fritz (chess).

Crafty is one of the programs included in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation benchmark test.

==External links== *Crafty FTP - ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/