Author: David Eppstein
Date: 23:01:36 02/22/99
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On February 22, 1999 at 15:51:55, Dann Corbit wrote: >1. For the Chess Analysis Project, we are in need of a very simple tool. If we >could have a move generator that will start with a new game and enumerate all >possible chess positions for a given ply, it would be very useful for our >purposes. The positions must be in standard EPD format. It would also be very >nice if it could save its internal state and be restarted at a later time from >where it left off. Actually I think you can ignore the "start with a new game" and "for a given ply" requirements. What you want is a program that takes as input a file of EPD positions and produces as output another file of EPD positions, one ply later. Then to get what you actually described, run this program a number of times equal to the given ply, starting with an EPD for the initial position. The "save its internal state and be restarted at a later time" part comes for free, you just run some plys now and others later, or if you want to get finer control of stopping and starting, break your input file into reasonably small chunks and remember which chunks you've already processed.
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