Author: Steve Timson
Date: 10:41:26 11/07/01
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On November 07, 2001 at 08:11:42, Dann Corbit wrote: >Thanks for the explanation. >I'm not clear if Chester that plays online is the Java or the C version. >Is it Winboard compatible? > >Will there ever be a public release? It is the C version. The Java version doesn't exist any longer. It was just a temporary thing - once the C version existed I stopped working on the Java version - I could never get around that Java internal VM error - seemed like heavily recursive stuff just made the VM really unhappy (this was the Sun VM for Java 1.2 I believe). The problem appeared once I had it working well enough that I started seeing deeper search depths. It runs under xboard. It is a unix app - uses unix style io. I don't have any immediate plans to make a win32 version, though I have compiled it under cygwin. I do plan on a public release some day, but there is certainly no concrete time on that. It is really not ready for that now - _everything_ is hardcoded.. :) Hash table sizes, TB locations, book locations, etc are all changed with a recompile. My input handling is terrible (e.g. setboard <space> <fen> works, but setboard <tab> <fen> fails). All eval params are hardocded/etc. I'd want to address these issues and others before considering a public release, as well as do a real win32 port. So to make a long story short - hopefully someday, but I don't have a timtable for it. At the moment work keeps much much too busy. - Steve
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