Author: Paul
Date: 17:49:59 10/04/01
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On October 04, 2001 at 19:01:32, leonid wrote: >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. The simple way (what I've done up until now) is this: 1. create a new text file in the folder where you've got your chest319.exe 2. double click on it (this should open notepad) 3. copy the following line into the file: for %%i in (3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13) do chest319 -Z%%i -b t.txt 4. save the file as 'b.bat' and close notepad 5. create a new text file in the folder where you've got your chest319.exe 6. double click on it (this should open notepad) 7. copy the epd of your problem into the text file, for example: r4rk1/ppRn1p2/6pb/1P2pq1p/3N4/P1QPn1Pb/1B1NPP1P/4R1KB b - - 8. save the file as 't.txt' and close notepad After this you can double click on the 'b.bat' file. You'll see a DOS window appear, and in it Chest will first try to find a mate in 3, then 4, then 5, etc. In this case it will find a mate in 7 in a minute or so. Chest presents the solution in an EPD string. The most important parts are: dm 7; (it's a mate in 7) bm Qxf2+; (best move is Qxf2+) pv Qxf2+ Kxf2 Ng4+ Kf3 e4+ Kxe4 Ngf6+ Kf3 Ne5+ Kf2 Nfg4+ Kg1 Be3#; (a solution) Sometimes there is more than one best move, you'll see that in the 'bm' section. If your Chest exe file is called differently, you'll have to edit that in the batch file above. And if you want to use Chest on another problem later, just edit the t.txt file in notepad, replace the problem-string, save it, and run b.bat again. Oh, and if you don't want to wait for the batch file to finish, you can stop it by opening the system menu of the DOS window (top left icon), chosing 'Close' and clicking 'Yes'. That's all for now folks! :) Paul
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