Author: F. Huber
Date: 13:47:23 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 16:01:32, Heiner Marxen wrote: >On January 10, 2004 at 02:31:01, F. Huber wrote: > >>On January 09, 2004 at 22:12:35, Peter Berger wrote: > >Hello Peter, Hello Franz! > > >>>Please let me answer in English, trying to adress a rather popular >>>misunderstanding (not directly answering you of course!). >>> >>>Chest is surely the most popular freeware matesolver availlable. >>> >>>Its author is Heiner Marxen (homepage http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/) , who is >>>a a great, *incredibly* clever guy, and surely one of the nicest persons I ever >>>met personally since I started to develop any interest in the world of >>>chessprograms. Though it is impossible for a layman to follow him when he gets >>>serious explaining his stuff , it is also impossible to not be deeply impressed >>>by his dedication, his intelligence, his passion and his ideas. > >Wow! Thanks for all the beatiful flowers, Peter! > > >>>For maths people his work on the Busy Beaver machines might be more well-known >>>btw: http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/BB/index.html. >>> >>>Franz Huber made Chest availlable for us mainstream users by writing an UCI >>>interface for it, and this was a great job done by him. >>> >>>But to the best of my knowledge ChestUCI still remains strictly an interface for >>>Heiner Marxen's great matesolver, and the matesolving algorithms were all >>>developped (or implemented) by him and his former teammates. >> >>Hello Peter, >> >>I don´t think that there´s any ´rather popular misunderstanding´ between Chest >>and ChestUCI at all - and if, then it´s absolutely not my fault! >>I´ve never let any doubt about it, _who_ is the author of this fantastic >>matesolver, and everybody who takes a short look at my program description >>can read this more than only once. >> >>Yes, the mate solving algorithms are of course from Heiner Marxen, and they >>are indeed so sophisticated, that I wouldn´t know at all how to add something >>or improve them in any way. >>But it´s also true, that I had to do a _lot_ of changes directly in the >>original Chest source modules too, to make Chest as comfortable and >>informative as it is now in conjunction with the interface ChestUCI - >>e.g. output in coordinate format, sorting and rearranging of the solutions >>(for automatically going through all main lines), showing all those search >>informations (originally not implemented in Chest at all), finding only the >>first solution (if wanted), etc. ... (to mention only a few changes!). > >I can confirm that! ;-) > >>So it was really not as simple as many people may think: only transferring >>the mate problem to Chest and then displaying Chests output wouldn´t have >>taken me some hundred hours of programming within the last 1 1/2 years! >>And it would also be interesting, how many percent of the people using >>ChestUCI would still use the original Chest in its command line version, >>if this interface wouldn´t exist - my guess is ´not more than 5%´. >> >>Regards, >>Franz. > >That may quite well be true. I'm very grateful for the great job you >have done with ChestUCI! Many thanks! > >Regards, >Heiner Hello Heiner, nice to see that you´re back again for the first time in this new year - I hope you are well! Yes, the ´relation´ between Chest and ChestUCI seems to be a problem for some people to understand, although it´s really simple: You(Chest) are the _head_, and I(ChestUCI) am the _legs_. ;-) So we really build a perfect symbiosis (I hope, this is English?). And now the _legs_ have to go away again, :) my best regards, Franz.
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