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Subject: Re: One mate to solve.

Author: leonid

Date: 16:01:32 10/04/01

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On October 04, 2001 at 14:28:54, Paul wrote:

>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! ;)

Paul and Heiner! It will be nice if somebody between you, from time to time (at
least once in a two months) will come here and give some concrete example of how
Chest must be put into work. For Windows and Linux. At least, as long as not
graphics oriented version will be on the Web.

Thanks,
Leonid.

>>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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