Author: Shep
Date: 05:04:28 08/05/99
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On August 05, 1999 at 06:57:52, Harald Faber wrote: >>I will finally be able to put some more efforts into this area as I have written >>a little tool that creates CM position files from an EPD file (if anyone is >>interested, this is in Perl only (!) and will be up on SCCS next week). >>So I can now run several settings through some test suites. >>(But don't fear, this is not likely to delay the publication of the 6666 >>settings. ;-) > >What does it mean in Perl only? Will I be able to use it (Win95)? This sounds to >be a great and important utility. ... and very small, too (4.5 K). Perl is a script language. You need a Perl interpreter to run it. These are freely available (any GNU collection should have one for Win95). And they come ready-to-run with Linux. :) I did not use C because a) I know much more about programming in Perl and b) because Perl is perfect for parsing strings. If you should not get any Perl to run on your system, don't worry; I will gradually put up all major test suites in CM format (and Chess Tiger format, BTW) on SCCS as well. I should mention there is a small catch to this: since the CM position format does not allow for entering any additional information like "side to move" or "castling rights", you still need to give this information to CM "by hand". :( But it's still better than having to enter all positions manually. I usually have Fritz (just the GUI) running in the background to have "best move" and castling rights at hand. CM 6000 is, IIRC, able to import FEN directly, BTW, but I never tried to. --- Shep
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