Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:16:43 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 19:20:31, Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) wrote: >I notice some other matefinder programs on the Net: > > Problematic (freeware) > http://www.geocities.com/~donfrench/index.html This one does not understand EPD. It has its own language. > Popeye (freeware) > http://www.leo.org/pub/rec/games/popeye/index.html This one does not understand EPD. It has its own language. However, it also solves Fairy chess and stuff like that, so it solves problems that the others do not (if you like that sort of thing). > and, of course, Chest: > http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html Fastest, best, most feature-rich, most complete, most standard, with open source. I could go on and on. But I already did that elsewhere. There is also Problemiste: http://perso.easynet.fr/~mleschen/prb/problem.htm It can read EPD (if and only if White to move!) but cannot write it. >It seems Popeye was once compiled on the Mac, I have source for Popeye on my ftp site, and it was pretty easy to port from UNIX to the Win32 environment. I suspect it would be equally easy to port to a MAC. > and that Chest perhaps >could be ... It's ANSI C. It was designed on UNIX, but I had it doing problems in just a few minutes. Porting to the MAC should be like falling off a log [without the bump]. > if any of the Mac programmers on this board would like >to take a crack at them. In the mean time, the matefinding option >of Sigma Chess 4.02 Mac works quite will at finding all mates of >a specified depth: > > http://users.cybercity.dk/~bst10651/ > >Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com) >http://dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Chess/Software/Macintosh/
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