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Subject: Re: About CHEST

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 12:57:58 09/18/02

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On September 18, 2002 at 14:42:57, Heiner Marxen wrote:

>On September 18, 2002 at 14:12:18, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>On September 18, 2002 at 13:56:21, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>>
>>>On September 18, 2002 at 13:17:26, F. Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 18, 2002 at 01:12:15, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I have tested UCI version and found, that program is unbelievable fast. I have
>>>>>tested some EGTB positions to verify solution with Nalimov's! And they were
>>>>>same.
>>>>>But one question: is it possible to see any info about search depth and/or node
>>>>>speed? Or should I only wait may be hours before anything is displayed?
>>>>>
>>>>>Jouni
>>>>
>>>>Hi Jouni,
>>>>
>>>>that´s really one problem, I´m also not very happy about with my ChestUCI.
>>>>But the original ´Chest´ does NOT output ANY informations while thinking,
>>>>and so also my UCI-interface has absolutely no chance to inform the GUI about
>>>>the progress of the searching :-(
>>>>
>>>>If you really have no idea of ´how many moves to mate´, maybe it could help
>>>>to start with a moderate number of ´SearchDepth´ (e.g. 5, 6,...) and increase
>>>>this number by one whenever no mate has been found. So you could at least
>>>>get ´some´ idea, how long the next calculation step would need.
>>>>
>>>>Maybe in the next version Heiner Marxen will implement ´some´ output info
>>>>while thinking - at least the actual search depth would IMO not slow down
>>>>the reallly fantastic seach speed.
>>>
>>>I'm listening...  "I'll do my very best".
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, the next version of Chest is delayed, but there is some chance,
>>>that I offer a slightly extended version 3.19b, better suitable for ChestUCI.
>>>I would announce that here, of course.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>Heiner
>>
>>It would be great if you can make a .pgn file output with variations and
>>sub-variations !
>
>That point is much further down in my TODO list.
>Besides the numerous details of PGN (Chest does know EPD, but not yet PGN),
>one problem is, that a complete solution tree can become _SO_HUGE_
>that it would not even fit onto any disk.
>So, how to select, what to include, and what not?
>Clearly, the PV shall be there.  But exactly what else?
>
>>Thanks for your marvelous mate solver ! ;o)
>
>:-))
>
>Cheers,
>Heiner

May be you can simply stop writing file when size >100 Kbytes or when output
have more then 100 line or so ...



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