Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 19:49:40 01/09/04
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On January 09, 2004 at 22:12:35, Peter Berger wrote: >On January 09, 2004 at 19:17:55, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote: > >>Meine Smirf Beta war ja offenbar nicht ganz fehlerfrei, und mit deinem Mattlöser >>konnte sie natürlich auch nicht so recht mithalten. Zudem hat sie offenbar außer >>in dir nur wenig Interessenten gefunden. > >Please let me answer in English, trying to adress a rather popular >misunderstanding (not directly answering you of course!). > >Chest is surely the most popular freeware matesolver availlable. > >Its author is Heiner Marxen (homepage http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/) , who is >a a great, *incredibly* clever guy, and surely one of the nicest persons I ever >met personally since I started to develop any interest in the world of >chessprograms. Though it is impossible for a layman to follow him when he gets >serious explaining his stuff , it is also impossible to not be deeply impressed >by his dedication, his intelligence, his passion and his ideas. > >For maths people his work on the Busy Beaver machines might be more well-known >btw: http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/BB/index.html. > >Franz Huber made Chest availlable for us mainstream users by writing an UCI >interface for it, and this was a great job done by him. > >But to the best of my knowledge ChestUCI still remains strictly an interface for >Heiner Marxen's great matesolver, and the matesolving algorithms were all >developped (or implemented) by him and his former teammates. > >>Aber noch fehlt mir etwas das Durchhaltevermögen. So trainere ich eben ein wenig >>meinen Kopf mit Forumsbeiträgen. Leider stoßen diese aber auf nur geringe >>Gegenliebe, aber das kenne ich ja schon. >> > >Gute Besserung! >Peter Thank you for your motivating! Franz was the one of my about three fans, who encouraged me to complete my Smirf beta to a playable UCI mating engine (still with some minor bugs). So I needed a time out to think it over, now having a lot of new ideas which would best lead to a complete redesign, especially because of supporting 10x8 chess variants and (as before) FRC. Though Arena is a brilliant new GUI it still is (as far as I know) not yet fully compatible with FRC-FEN, and - absolutly clear - could not be for my latest proposal. I hope, when a new Smirf beta will be released someday, there would exist a (UCI) GUI, which supports at least FRC completly. Regards, Reinhard.
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