Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 13:01:32 01/10/04
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On January 10, 2004 at 02:31:01, F. Huber wrote: >On January 09, 2004 at 22:12:35, Peter Berger wrote: Hello Peter, Hello Franz! >>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. Wow! Thanks for all the beatiful flowers, Peter! >>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. > >Hello Peter, > >I don´t think that there´s any ´rather popular misunderstanding´ between Chest >and ChestUCI at all - and if, then it´s absolutely not my fault! >I´ve never let any doubt about it, _who_ is the author of this fantastic >matesolver, and everybody who takes a short look at my program description >can read this more than only once. > >Yes, the mate solving algorithms are of course from Heiner Marxen, and they >are indeed so sophisticated, that I wouldn´t know at all how to add something >or improve them in any way. >But it´s also true, that I had to do a _lot_ of changes directly in the >original Chest source modules too, to make Chest as comfortable and >informative as it is now in conjunction with the interface ChestUCI - >e.g. output in coordinate format, sorting and rearranging of the solutions >(for automatically going through all main lines), showing all those search >informations (originally not implemented in Chest at all), finding only the >first solution (if wanted), etc. ... (to mention only a few changes!). I can confirm that! ;-) >So it was really not as simple as many people may think: only transferring >the mate problem to Chest and then displaying Chests output wouldn´t have >taken me some hundred hours of programming within the last 1 1/2 years! >And it would also be interesting, how many percent of the people using >ChestUCI would still use the original Chest in its command line version, >if this interface wouldn´t exist - my guess is ´not more than 5%´. > >Regards, >Franz. That may quite well be true. I'm very grateful for the great job you have done with ChestUCI! Many thanks! Regards, Heiner
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