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Subject: Re: Chess utility that will reverse pieces and board to a mirror image?

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 23:55:49 04/10/04

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On April 10, 2004 at 16:59:11, D.B. Morris wrote:

>I teach a summer chess camp and am wondering if a utility exists for
>(flipping)reversing the position from Black to White.  Something that will
>change the board and pieces into a mirror image.  There are so many good
>problems in books from the Black side, which I would like to enter, and convert
>it to White to play and win.  I use White for clarity in my problems at camp.
>(I manually enter positions using chessbase light...and have no programming
>experience).
>Thanks for any insight on this.
>dbm

Hi DBM,

Actually some time ago I had developed an application for the C.A.P. project
that does exactly that and more.  I can send you it but might have to wait until
Monday to do it.  I developed it initially to help Dann Corbit CAP project when
we were compiling a database of analyzed chess positions.  I figured hey we have
all these positions ( ~ 6,000,000) so instead of waiting on peoples computers to
analyze positions why not just generate the mirror images and increase our
knowledge base by a factor of 4 and that brought our total up then to ~
24,000,000 positions.  Let me know if you are interested in me sending it to
you.

Les



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