Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 07:18:25 01/31/04
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On January 31, 2004 at 06:34:42, F. Huber wrote: >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). I just found the explanation why this feature does not work properly, as currently implemented. Unfortunately, there is no easy fix as far as I can tell. May be I'll find one in the next days... I'll email you details. Sorry, I'd like that feature myself :-( Cheers, Heiner >Best regards, >Franz.
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