Author: Shane Booth
Date: 01:29:17 07/12/98
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>>On July 11, 1998 at 19:10:59, Trefor Deane wrote: >> >>>Does anyone know of a program that can randomly generate solve for mate >>>problems, and not rely on a data base of previously stored problems? Danniel misread your question. Yes, every program has an option that attempts to solve mate problems you give it, but I know of no program that will compose a valid mate problem for the user to solve. Composing a chess problem is an artistic endeavour, and getting a computer to generate an aesthetically pleasing problem would be an enormous task. I can't see any program with this feature in the near future. As far as I know, the only problem ever "composed" by a computer was a KQN vs. KQ position by Belle, and (if I remember correctly as it was some years ago) Ken Thompson simply picked an interesting looking position from its endgame database (all pieces on the same file). Shane
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