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Subject: Re: Chester1 version 0.11

Author: leonid

Date: 20:26:32 04/15/02

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On April 15, 2002 at 18:56:35, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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.
>

Thanks! This is just what should be done already for a long time.

The most I expect some simple graphics interface for Chest to make it as
accessible as game with Chessmater.

Cheers,
Leonid.

>
>>
>>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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