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Subject: Re: C.A.P. RFT

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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