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Subject: Re: A simple Windows GUI for Chest?

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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