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Subject: Re: Popeye program (hey Dann)

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 18:59:22 09/07/99

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On September 07, 1999 at 21:34:28, Pete Galati wrote:
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>Yes, see Dann Corbit's site at ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/ I'm not clear exactly
>what it does, I think Dann said that it solves mates. I've never sat down and
>figured it out though.
It does all kinds of wonderful stuff.  It also has some very innovative
techniques (dynamic sizing of hash tables, for instance).  It solves not only
ordinary chess problems, but also fairy chess problems.  Unfortunately, it does
not understand EPD, but you have to put the problem specifications in its own
funny popeye language.  This is explained in the documentation, but it would be
a pain in the posterior for me to make it do what I want.  Therefore, it is a
cute toy but not useful for the kind of things most interesting to me.  It does,
however come with source code and is worthy of study.



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