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

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:35:39 04/04/02

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On April 04, 2002 at 15:18:44, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>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


I was a boob for not reading the readme file first!




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