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Subject: Re: Improved library for dumping game trees

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 09:14:40 06/17/03

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On June 17, 2003 at 09:38:22, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>On June 17, 2003 at 08:10:36, Heiner Marxen wrote:
>
>>On June 17, 2003 at 02:25:59, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have written, tested and released CHANT_lib2 which is should provide the
>>>easiest way to modify your chess program to dump game trees.
>>>
>>>You just need to call CHANT_MakeMove(move) when you enter a node then
>>>CHANT_UnmakeMove() when you exit the node and optionally call extra functions to
>>>set alpha, beta, score, user data, node type for current node. That's all!
>>>
>>>Includes functions to disable temporarily node writing (if it's necessary).
>>>
>>>And the library can be activated/deactivated completly using just one #define !
>>>
>>>More details and the library to download : on the CHANT homepage :
>>>        http://fortuna.iasi.rdsnet.ro/chant/
>>>
>>>Cheers especially to Heiner and Uri !
>>>
>>>Andrei
>>
>>Thanks for making your efforts available to others!
>>BTW: the link to the full version (order.html) seems to not work (404).
>
>It's the link on the download page, right ? It's fixed now, thanks for letting
>me know. I converted the pages recently from html to php for easier maintenance

Yes, exactly.

>and forgot to change that link. The other link (on the left column) should have
>worked though.
>
>>Am I right that there is no viewer available for Linux?
>>Unfortunately, I do not work with Windows (and will not change that).
>>My impression is that you sell the viewer... so I guess there will be
>>no Linux version (or even a portable one in, say, Tcl/Tk) ?
>
>The viewer is made with standard C++ code and wxWindows. It is for Windows for
>the moment but it should be portable under linux with minimal changes. I will
>attempt a port in the next days since it you asked for it. My problem with it is
>that linux has many flavours and I guess there might be some problems if I will
>offer just the binaries. But I will try a port.

That sounds much better than I expected!
I stay tuned!
A graphical viewer for game trees could be helpful for me, too.

>Indeed the viewer is commercial, I ofer the full version with 150000 nodes
>limitation for free as shareware and unlimited as commercial.

That is fine.

>Cheers,
>Andrei

Thanks & Cheers,
Heiner



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