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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: Paul

Date: 11:28:54 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 13:30:57, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On October 04, 2001 at 11:02:00, Paul wrote:

>>No, since Heiner's back, I don't want to 'mow the grass away in front of his
>>feet' as we use to say over here in Holland. It's nicer if he tells us of his
>>results himself, also since he usually has more data to enlighten us ...

>Hey, wait a minute... that's not what I intended when I released Chest
>to the public.  Nobody should wait for me and my slow 600MHz box to do
>all conceivable mate jobs around.
>Chest is available to everybody in order to enable them to do that themselves,
>on their newest/fastest box.  So, please go ahead, and use it, and tell
>the rest of CCC the formidable results.

Thanks, but you have been responding to Leonid's posts for a long time now, and
I'm not going to be a spoil-sport. You like solving these puzzles, and I like
seeing you around doing just that and having nice conversations with Leonid (and
me)!

I know 3-hands-Dann irregularly shows off Chest's marvelous findings on CCC, but
that's because he has a special relationship to you and many other programmers,
because of his compiling skills.

>I realize that you just wanted to be polite.  That is fine, but in this case
>I do not want to receive this exact politeness.  Really.

Yep ... that's me, the polite guy, use way too many smiley's also. :) But that's
not the issue here. I like seeing programmers showing off their own creations,
and chat about it. So your stuck here I'm afraid. ;)

>To get that additional data from which I sometimes show parts to talk about
>EBF and the like, just use switch -s (statistics) and try to guess the
>meaning of the additional output.  If you want me to explain some of this
>output, just ask me and I'll tell you some of my great wisdom :-)
>Ah, yes: that -s can be combined with -b: the output is then not just plain
>EPD, but EPD and that statistics info intermixed.

Rest assured, I'm going to experiment some more with Chest the coming days (if I
feel up to it). And will pose more questions, Oh You Great Unix Guru! ;)

>Summary: Go ahead and use Chest in any way you like, I will not have any
>bad feelings by that, I will rather enjoy to see it being used.

I can tell you that it has been running here for the last couple of hours trying
to find a mate in 9 for Leonid's Last Problem, but the only thing I know for now
is that there's no mate in 8. :)

>Cheers,
>Heiner

Venlig Hilsen,
Paul



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