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Subject: Re: Mate in 9....?

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 12:18:44 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 15:07:51, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On April 04, 2002 at 14:54:09, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On April 04, 2002 at 12:49:04, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>How do I get a working version of Chest??
>>>Jim
>>
>>See  http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html
>>
>>I offer source, only (ANSI-C).
>>Dann Corbit also offers win-32 binaries (my page has a link).
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Heiner
>
>
>How did it come to be named Chest?
>
>Is that like Chessed or Chess'd?
>
>Or could it have been called Bust (also a breast reference, but also implying
>that it will bust any unsound puzzles)?
>
>(Or perhaps it's such a great program that it's everybody's bosom buddy?)
>
>;-)

LOL!

CHEss (problem) analyST

and I prefer the meaning of chest being "a large strong box, usually made
of wood, used for storing things in and/or moving them from one place to
another --> a treasure chest". (Oxford Advanced Learners Dict.)

so it contains valuable things ;-)

Cheers,
Heiner




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