Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:22:53 04/13/02
Chest GUI for Win32 now available in early form at http://home.attbi.com/~ardee/Chester1.html This is an early prototype and very limited in several ways. However, it seems to accomplish the main task of allowing the user to paste a FEN/EPD from the clipboard and send it to Chest.exe with reasonable settings for most orthodox checkmate positions. There is no readme yet, but this is from the web page: Chester1.exe runs in the Win32 environment and requires that you have previously installed Visual Basic v6 runtime libraries from Microsoft. These are freely available from many sources, including http://www.tucows.com/system/preview/194333.html . The purpose of Chester1.exe is to facilitate running the very powerful chess-puzzle solving program, Chest. For information on Chest and to download the source code, please visit the page of the author of Chest, Heiner Marxen, http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html . You can download a version that has been compiled to run under Windows from Dann Corbit's FTP site; here is a link to the zipfile: ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chest/CHEST319.ZIP At the moment this application is in its infancy. To run it, do the the following: First, create a new directory and unzip into it the contents of the .zip file below. (You should have two files: Chester1.exe and RunChest.bat.) Second, copy the program Chest.exe to the same directory. You should now be able to run Chester1.exe by double-clicking it. Chester1 will prompt you for a chess position in the standard text format of EPD (or FEN -- I don't know the difference at the moment). It will paste the contents of the clipboard automatically into the text field, but if that's not what you want feel free to copy an EPD/FEN string from another source and paste it here (or type it in if you are patient!) Once an EPD/FEN string has been pasted, simply press Enter or click the button labeled "Run Chest!" and, with any luck, the copy of Chest that you put into the same directory as Chester1.exe (you remembered to do that, didn't you?) should run. A few words are displayed in the command window to explain what's happening. Chest may take awile to solve the position. When it is done, Chest displays the solution. You can press any key to END the command session (you might prefer to clip the results first!). You can then use Chester1 again (presumably with a different position) or quit it by clicking the "X" in the upper-right corner as with most Windows applications. Feedback (here) appreciated!
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