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Subject: Re: Chester1 version 0.11

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:49:28 04/15/02

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On April 15, 2002 at 11:10:14, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On April 15, 2002 at 09:55:40, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>On April 15, 2002 at 01:12:42, Robin Smith wrote:
>>
>>>On April 14, 2002 at 15:11:29, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>>
>>>Roy,
>>>
>>>Chester works great for me, thanks!
>>>
>>>>3. Permit the user to set various parameters (there are alreadly hidden controls
>>>>for some).  Which ones?  Feedback appreciated.
>>>
>>>I would like a way to specify max search depth, so Chest/er will halt
>>>the search after the defined depth if no mate is found.
>>
>>
>>Thanks for the feedback!  That will go in next, hopefully today.
>

>Is it possible to display the current depth search depth of chest ?


Not that I know of.  Chest is running as a DOS app and it apparently gives no
feedback until it is finished, nor do I think it's possible to query it about
its progress.

If I am wrong here, could somebody _please_ correct me?  Thanks!



>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>8. Give it a real name!
>>>
>>>I like the name Chester.  Or how about ChestMaster 8000?  No, on second thought
>>>you might get sued.
>>>
>>>Thanks again for making this available.  I will probably now start using Chest
>>>again, while before if looking for a mate I wouldn't bother with Chest and just
>>>use something like Chessmaster.
>>>
>>>-Robin



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