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Subject: Re: About CHEST

Author: F. Huber

Date: 14:01:30 09/18/02

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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

Hello Heiner,

the modifications of your Chest which we discussed some weeks ago (option -5,
coordinate output, ...) I have already done in your source code - I believe
to remember, that you have no DOS or Windows system available (only Unix),
so you probably couldn´t test my new version of your Chest (I called it 3.19+).
I.e., my new Chest version is already almost optimal for my UCI interface,
but of course _you_ may have more (and better) ideas for adapting it to UCI.
If so, I hope that it will not be necessary for me to completely rewrite
my whole engine ;-)
(It was rather a lot of work for me to program this interface at all)

Best wishes,
Franz.





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