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Subject: Re: Chest solved it in about 20 minutes.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:56:05 10/10/01

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On October 10, 2001 at 17:37:57, Slater Wold wrote:

>On October 10, 2001 at 15:28:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On October 09, 2001 at 22:56:27, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>Chest solved this on one AMD 1.4Ghz CPU is about 20 minutes.  (I think it was a
>>>little less than 20 minutes, actually.)
>>>
>>>I ran it on Win2k, and competly forgot, when it's done searching, the window
>>>closes.  (From a bat file.)
>>>
>>>When it closed, it was gone, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of log.
>>>
>>>Chest is pretty amazing.  Finding it faster than anything else, even
>>>Chessmaster.
>>
>>Do it like this:
>>
>>   chest319 -b -M200 -z10 m10.epd > m10.out
>>
>>and it will preserve the output in a file called m10.out
>
>Nice!  Thanks Dann.  :)

Here is the list of options and what they mean:

CHEST version 3.19, 18-Dec-1999
Usage: chest319 [options] [--] [file]
        -2 -A   disable #2/anti heuristic
        -a -f   disable answer/fac heuristic
        -b      bulk mode operation
        -c      just check input board
        -d      increment debug level
        -D      increment special debug level
        -g      move generator test
        -G N    count tree width N plies deep
        -l -L   increment solution print depth / complete
        -m      do not use adaptive memory
        -M N    use N MB memory (transposition table) (-1==dft)
        -p      increment: print positive partial solutions
        -r      suppress refutation table
        -s      increment statistics level
        -S      optimize long solution
        -t      level increment of move execution trace
        -T      trace all move executions
        -u      increment dual suppression level
        -U      dual suppression except at top
        -V      just print version info
        -x      first execute a defender move
        -z N    depth of job (overrides file input)
        -Z N    default depth of job (if missing in input)
        -eE     special for hEiner
        -hH     special for tHorak
        -oO     special for hOps
        -?      print this usage



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