Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:15:53 02/22/99
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On February 23, 1999 at 02:01:36, David Eppstein wrote: >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. Thank you for an excellent observation. I will forward your remarks to the C.A.P. member currently working on it.
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