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Subject: Re: Dear Chess Programmers: Please create a chess utility that.....

Author: Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz

Date: 08:36:30 11/22/03

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On November 22, 2003 at 10:02:18, George Tsavdaris wrote:

>Is there any Chess utility, that:
>
>a)Finds the mean number of legal moves for a game of chess from a PGN file.
>Or even better:
>b)That produces a text file with the possible number of legal moves,
>per player turn, from a PGN file. For example after the game:
>1. f4 e5 2. g4 Qh4+ 0-1 the text file must have: 20 20 21 31
>
>I think, such a Chess program is easy to make and as i don't know anything about
>programming, can anyone make a program like that? (If there isn't any)
>I would be obliged to anyone who will do that, or say if he knows any
>program right now which makes a) or b).


Using any existing engine with no known bugs in its move generation function,
and, of course, capable of reading PGN files, it shouldn't even take 30 minutes
to do such thing. Mine can take FEN, but doens't read PGN... yet.

The question, before anyone spends time in adding this feature, is: why is this
useful at all?

Regards,

  Jaime



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