Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:47:59 04/04/02
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On April 04, 2002 at 17:41:06, Salvador Bosch Pérez wrote: >On April 04, 2002 at 15:33:52, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On April 04, 2002 at 15:24:01, Heiner Marxen wrote: >> >>>On April 04, 2002 at 15:12:56, Roy Eassa wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>Has anybody created a simple Windows GUI for Chest (the problem-solving chess >>>>app)? >>>> >>>>If so, could somebody please point me to a copy. >>>> >>>>If not, would that be helpful to anybody but me? >>> >>>Quite recently Salvador Bosch Perez announced http://egchesspro.sourceforge.net >>>It does not work with all versions of windows, yet. >>> >>>Cheers, >>>Heiner >> >> >>Looks very nice in that it is much, much more ambitious than what I was >>referring to. However, it apparently doesn't work under NT/2000 and thus >>probably also under XP. And it's not a real Windows GUI app. >> >>The very unambitious app I was looking for, and which would be quite easy to >>create (I think), is just a true Windows 32-bit app that lets you paste in the >>EPD of a single puzzle, select a couple options with radio buttons or >>checkboxes, and click a "Solve" button that sends the puzzle to Chest and >>displays the results in a scrollable window from which you can copy them to the >>clipboard. > >EGChessPro don't work *yet* under Windows NT/2000. I'm working on this. >It is not a GUI app, but it makes that many available Windows chess programs >work as a GUI for Chest (and for Popeye and Crafty). > >When EGChessPro starts, it launch your favourite Windows chess position editor >(SCID, CDB, WinBoard, Notepad, ...). For to solve a chess problem, just copy it >from this program into the clipboard (with PGN, EPD or FEN format) and >EGChessPro calls Chest ant puts the solution (converted to PGN) into the >clipboard. Then, you can paste this solution into the chess editor and view all >its variations. >I think that it's a quick way for to solve chess problems with Chest. > >Salvador It sounds very useful! I hope you can get it to work under NT/2k soon. :-)
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