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Subject: Re: Programs for problem solving

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:31:37 05/05/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 14:29:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On May 05, 2005 at 13:44:48, Claude Le Page wrote:
>
>>I am looking for a program for problem solving : I have one , but I think it's
>>rather slow on "long" problems
>>Do you know one  more performant , and ,if possible , free?
>
>If you want to solve mates, then Chest and Popeye are hard to beat.
>There are UCI versions available.
>
>If you want to find best moves, then Shredder is amazing as a commercial program
>and free programs like:
>Aristarch
>Crafty
>Delfi
>Fruit
>GreenLightChess
>Ktulu
>LG
>List
>Movei
>Pepito
>Pharaon
>Pro
ProDeo, of course (I think you have to have some kind of Rebel program to get
ProDeo free, but I am not sure about it).

>Quark
>Ruffian
>SOS
>SlowChess
>SmarThink
>Tao
>Thinker
>Yace
>
>are all fantastic at problem solving.
>
>Arena has a nice interface for this.  Tragically, it does not output the
>solutions as EPD records, but only ChessAssistant (commercial product) is able
>to that I am aware of.



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