Author: Robert Ericsson
Date: 04:30:07 02/18/99
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On February 18, 1999 at 02:27:57, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 17, 1999 at 09:25:56, Robert Ericsson wrote: > >>On February 17, 1999 at 00:28:15, Paulo Soares wrote: >> >>>I am interested in programs for direct mates (mate in >>>2, 8, 10, 30, etc). Somebody could say something about Alybadix, >>>Gustaf or others? >>> >>>Best regards, >>> >>>Paulo Soares, from brasil >> >>Try Popeye, it's great! Solves any kind of chess problem and is not as >>limited as Problemiste. >> >>http://www.leo.org/pub/rec/games/popeye/ >I got a copy. I did a build, and ran the menu system through the menu compiler. > > This tool would be very, very confusing unless you knew the German language and >could use the special interface. > >OTOH, if I wanted to use boyscouts, camels and a moose instead of ordinary chess >pieces -- Popeye would be the way to go. I don't see the problem? There are several readme files in different languages. One is in English. Read it and you will be up running in a minute. It's DOS (but there is a Win Shell program) and you have to edit a name.inp file. Then you run pywin name.inp + ENTER and Popeye starts solving the problem. You can also get an protocol of all variations (tree) if you want. And many other things too. It might be wise to type pywin name.inp | more + ENTER otherwise you might miss the solution :-) But FEN/EPD can't be used but that's not a problem in my eyes. Try it out! Robert
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