Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 07:25:39 01/16/01
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On January 15, 2001 at 13:07:31, Uri Blass wrote: >On January 15, 2001 at 13:06:16, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On January 15, 2001 at 12:15:36, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>On January 14, 2001 at 14:58:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>A classic example is "chest". Great at finding mates. But try to wrap a >>>>front-end around it and play real games. It will get totally mashed. Because >>>>it is designed to find tactical things and not positional things. >>> >>>I have never heard about the program "chest". Who is the programmer, and >>>where can I find more information about the program? >>> >>>Tord >> >>The programmer is heiner marxen and the program is a free chess program that is >>the best in finding the shortest mate. >> >>Uri > >The name chess program is maybe not the right name because the program does not >play chess but only solve mates. > >Uri Chest is a "mate prover", it finds shortest mates. It is intended to be used for chess problems (like "mate in 4"). See http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/index.html Heiner
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