Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 15:56:35 04/15/02
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On April 15, 2002 at 18:52:54, leonid wrote: >On April 14, 2002 at 15:11:29, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Freeware Win32 app to facilitate sending an EPD/FEN string to Chest to solve. >>In early development version. Available at: >> >>http://home.attbi.com/~ardee/Chester1.html >> >> >>Chester1 versions >>----------------- >> >>Version 0.11 (14 Apr 2002): >> >>Fixed a bug in which what was sent to Chest was always the contents of the >>clipboard, even when the text field was different from that. >> >> >>Version 0.10 (13 Apr 2002): >> >>Initial release. >> >> >> >> >>Chester1 future plans (not prioritized here) >>-------------------------------------------- >> >>1. Figure out why a batch file is required (without it, Chest quits before you >>can read what it has to say) and do away with it if possible! >> >>2. Show Chest's output in a separate, scrollable, GUI window (but: we don't know >>how long Chest will take -- it could take hours -- and we cannot communicate >>with it while it is thinking and thus we cannot show its progress or know WHEN >>to display results). >> >>3. Permit the user to set various parameters (there are alreadly hidden controls >>for some). Which ones? Feedback appreciated. >> >>4. Rewrite in C (should be easy) or, better, in Tcl/Tk so it can be >>cross-platform. >> >>5. Add a menu bar, an 'About' box, a Version resource, etc. >> >>6. Permit the user to point to (via a standard Open dialog box) the copy of >>Chest he wishes to use, rather than requiring that Chest be in the same >>directory as Chester1 and be named "Chest.exe". >> >>7. Save preferences in the registry (or maybe in a simple prefs file), >>especially for the location and name of Chest. >> >>8. Give it a real name! > >Thanks for next mate solving program! Leonid, I did NOT write a mate solving program! Heiner Marxen wrote Chest, which is a GREAT mate solving program that has been available for several years. http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html I just wrote a very simple program to make it a little easier to send a FEN/EPD string to Chest from Windows. > >Will be very appreciated if you will come here with some solutions for some next >mate positions. Mate positions come to this place around two or three times each >week. It could give direct impression about capability of this solver, or will >permit to know more about it through few people description. > >I still will try to go later and try to install this program on my computer. To >be sincere, I am not sure if program that I already have, Chest, is identical, >or not with the program that you indicated. > >Cheers, >Leonid.
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