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Subject: [ANN] CHANT : A tool to view the game trees of your chess program

Author: Andrei Fortuna

Date: 02:47:09 06/10/03


Greetings,

I have the pleasure of announcing CHANT : A tool to view game trees generated by
any chess program. Includes a C library that you can use inside your favourite
chess program to dump the tree to a .chant file for viewing.

Here is a list of features :

- Multiple game trees can be viewed at the same time, thus the user can compare
for example the tree generated at ply 10 with the tree generated at ply 11

- Small memory footprint : the viewer uses under 10 MB of memory when viewing a
tree (1-2 MB are added for each new game tree window opened) and a constant
amount of memory (around 64 MB) when generating index files (and that only
occurs first time a tree file is opened)
- Modular architecture : the user can write plugins that are used by the viewer
to customize the output

- Variable size for a tree node : the tree files can contain a variable sized
(<=128 bytes) amount of user data

- Unlimited number of nodes in the search trees (limited only by the size of
free disk space)

- High Speed : the viewer uses index files to speed up access to the trees

- Chessboard inside the viewer to show current node position

- Source code included for the library to write the chess tree file and for
writing plugins

-Easy game tree navigation


Details, forum, screenshots, downloads etc : on the CHANT homepage :
      http://fortuna.iasi.rdsnet.ro/chant/

Andrei



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