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Subject: Re: Mate in 38 in 1 second!!! (by next ChestUCI)

Author: F. Huber

Date: 03:34:42 01/31/04

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On January 31, 2004 at 04:48:39, Manfred Meiler wrote:

>(...)
>>Do I understand you right?
>>You prefer a Chest, which is _not_ able to solve such a deep mate at all
>>(of course this is impossible with brute-force!), instead of a Chest with
>>an _additional_ mate solving mode, which _can_ find such solutions
>>(although it´s not guaranteed to be the shortest one)?
>>
>>If this is the common opinion here, I see absolutely no reason to make
>>this new Chest version (with my enhancements) available to the public! :-(
>>
>>Franz.
>
>
>Hi Franz,
>
>if I understand your description above correct this ChestUCI v3.2 offers a new
>feature "Search for Special-Mate mode" - additional to the known mate solving
>mode of ChestUCI with guaranteed shortest mate ?
>Of course I'm very interested in this new ChestUCI version.
>
>Best regards,
>Manfred

Hello Manfred,

as usual you´ve exactly got the point! ;-)

There´s indeed an _extra_ mode ´Special-Mate´ with three new adjustable
options (´ChecksOnly´, ´KingMobility´ and ´MaxMoves´), which allow to
restrict Chest´s mate search and thus _can_ sometimes give really
incredible fast solutions.

Unfortunately with one of these options (´ChecksOnly´) there´s still
a little problem, for which not even Heiner Marxen has yet found the
reason (or a solution ), but he´s working on it (at least I think so ;-)),
and I hope he´ll solve this problem - otherwise I will have to take out
this feature again (or at least restrict its possibilities to the part
which is working correctly).

Best regards,
Franz.



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