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Subject: Re: ´ChestUCI Ver.1.0´ - a new UCI-engine for the problem solver ´Chest´

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 02:48:48 08/25/02

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On August 24, 2002 at 19:48:22, F. Huber wrote:

>Hello to all friends of ´Chest´ and chess problems,
>
>after a week of hard programming I´m happy to announce my new free engine
>´ChestUCI Ver.1.0´.
>
>This UCI engine is an interface between the absolutely top problem solver
>´Chest Ver.3.19´ from Heiner Marxen and an UCI-GUI (as e.g. ´Arena´)
>
>Everybody who already knows and uses ´Chest´ will  like ´ChestUCI´,
>as it makes the handling of ´Chest´ much easier and more comfortable.
>
>The main features of ´ChestUCI´:
>-------------------------------
>1) it offers really ALL functions and options of the original ´Chest´
>without any limitations or any lost of speed
>
>2) it is possible to play ´through´ all solutions, that ´Chest´ has found
>
>3) you can choose any mainline of multiple solutions for playing

I use your ChestUCI, but I can't see no more than the mainline that ChestUCI
search automatically when i load a pgn position ...
Can you explain me how to get sub-lines please ?



>
>BUT: the full functionalty of ´ChestUCI´ is only given under the really
>excellent chess-GUI ´Arena´!
>Although it´s possible to use ´ChestUCI´ under ´Shredder´ or ´Fritz´,
>there are some little (for Shredder) or bigger (for Fritz) limitations.
>The reason for this is e.g. the incomplete (and very bad) implementation
>of the UCI standard by ´Fritz´ - so it´s not the fault of my engine.
>
>One other problem for some (or many at this forum?) may be, that my
>documentation of the engine is only in German (but the engine itself
>´speaks´ English, of course) - but after more than one week of very
>hard programming I really don´t like to further translate my program
>description into English.
>So if anyone of you has too much free time :-) and would like to do
>this job for all the English speaking chess-friends here, you´re
>really invited to it - and send me a copy of it, so that I could
>include it into my release of ´ChestUCI´.
>
>
>Ich hope, you´ll like my new ´ChestUCI´ (i.e. ´Chest´ under ´Arena´),
>best reagards from Austria,
>Franz.
>
>ChestUCI Ver.1.0 - infos and download at:
>
>http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/Chest/chest.html



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