Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 13:23:55 05/05/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 16:05:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 15:59:58, F. Huber wrote: > >>On May 05, 2005 at 15:50:56, Martin Baumung wrote: >> >>>On May 05, 2005 at 15:17:22, F. Huber wrote: >>> >>>>On May 05, 2005 at 14:56:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>Popeye will solve some faster than Chest (and vice-versa of course): >>>> >>>>??? ;-) >>>> >>>>Could you post some positions, where Popeye is faster than Chest? >>>> >>>>I´m just curious ... >>>> >>>>Franz. >>> >>>Maybe some helpmates? ;-)))) >>> >>>Cheers, >>> >>>Martin >> >>You´re right - but that will be the only problems. ;-) >>But maybe sometimes Chest will also have such an ´Intelligent mode´ for h# ... > >I was only going by word of mouth, actually -- because I have never seen it >myself. > >These links: >http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Bridge/8119/shp.htm >http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Bridge/8119/hppopeye.htm > >describe Popeye as the best, but they do not include Chest times, and so Chest >might actually be faster. Most probably not. Chest 3.19 is not good at help[stale]mates. Since then I have experimented with several improvements, but only classical "tricks". The "intelligent" mode of Popeye (and others) is something completely different. It is not easy to get right, but can provide enormous speed-ups. Currently Chest cannot compete, here. Cheers, Heiner
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