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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