Cook Book: Compile Crafty Chess Engine with gcc under Windows

Using Dev-C++ that includes gcc/g++

VERSIONS:

Crafty 19.6 - also tested successfully with Crafty 19.2 ! (other versions not checked)
Crafty 19.7 - also tested successfully with Crafty 19.8 and 19.9 !
→ Additional info: Why a modified "X86.s" is needed
for compiling these versions of Crafty with gcc under Windows.
Crafty 19.11 / 19.12 / 19.13
Delta info for Crafty 19.14 (other makefile than for 19.11/12/13)
For Crafty 19.15 the same description as for 19.14 applies, but again a new makefile has to be used: Get it in txt format or as a zip file!
Note: Crafty 19.15 played a remarkably successful tournament in the World Computer Chess Championship 2004: Rank 4/14 in the normal tournament (same as Fritz) and rank 2/8 in the speed chess tournament (just behind Shredder and before Junior). However, it also has to be noted that Crafty used slightly stronger hardware than any other participant in the competition.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

By far the best GUI (user interface) for playing Crafty (or other chess engines) is Arena:
In short, it supports WB1&2 (as needed for Crafty) and UCI 1&2 protocols, it has an enormous amount of features, a professional user interface, well structured menus, it runs reliably and it is free.

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