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Subject: Re: new ChestUCI Ver.3.4

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 13:51:34 04/15/04

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On April 15, 2004 at 12:45:28, F. Huber wrote:

>Hello Chest-friends,
>
>my new version of ChestUCI is available.
>
>Additionally to small corrections, changes and improvements
>(listed in ´Version.txt´ - only in German), there´s one new
>essential feature: a new problem type ´Auto-Special-Mate´,
>which is an enhancement of the special-mate mode introduced
>in the last versions.
>With this new function ChestUCI is able to find the optimum
>parameter values for such special mates by itself - eiter
>full-automatic (i.e. for all 4 parameters) or half-automatic
>(i.e. only for those parameters not explicitly adjusted).
>(Please carefully read the detailed description of this new
>option in the included file ´English.txt´!)
>
>The full-automatic mode is thought for people, which are
>not very familiar with those adjustable special parameters -
>but of course in this mode finding the optimum solution
>can take quite a while.
>Chest experts will usually be much faster with the half-automatic
>mode, if obvious parameters are pre-set to the correct values,
>but for that a comprehension of the position (and sometimes also
>a ´flair´) would ne necessary - two qualities, which unfortunately
>I wasn´t yet able to implement into ChestUCI. :-(
>
>So of course you shouldn´t expect any ´miracles´ from this new
>function - an ´intelligent´ mode, which will solve any hard mate
>problem within seconds, will come later ...
>(about 2050 I guess, so a bit patience please ;-))
>
>If you discover any problems with this new automatic-mode, or if
>anyone has some good ideas to make this function more efficient,
>I would be very grateful for such hints -
>either via email or posting in a chess forum.
>
>Best regards,
>Franz.
>
>Download of ChestUCI Ver.3.4 at:
>http://www.uciengines.de/UCI-Engines/Chest/chest.html
>
>PS. for Heiner Marxen:
>Any progress with ´mate threats´ in Chest, Heiner? ;-)

Hello Franz!

No, sorry, I've made zero progress, because I simply have no time to spend
for Chest.

Thanks for the new even more user-friendly version of ChestUCI!

Cheers,
Heiner



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