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Subject: Re: Hey Dann! Any idea how this compares to CHEST??

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 21:13:03 01/24/01

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On January 24, 2001 at 16:13:43, Dann Corbit wrote:

>No comparison.
>Chest blows its doors off.
>
>But, if you just want to understand a simple way to test for checkmates and you
>like Pascal, they it is worth a look.
>
>There is nothing that compares to chest anywhere for standard mate searching.
>The ones that they sell are not nearly so good.  No, they are comically
>inferior.
>
>If you want to search for non-tablebase checkmates that are optimal, chest is
>the answer to that question.
>
>The only viable alternative for chest is Popeye, and that only because it
>processes fairy chess problems.  So if you like fairy chess, there is popeye.
>Else, use Chest.

The user interface of chest is almost non-existant.  What method do you use to
interface with chest?

Robin



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