Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 15:31:52 01/05/00
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On January 05, 2000 at 17:28:19, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On January 05, 2000 at 14:54:51, Dann Corbit wrote: > [snip] >> >>I suggest Heiner Marxen's fabulous Chest program. It can solve any 8 move >>checkmate that I have tried overnight (no matter how cluttered the board is), >>and some of them in just a few moments. It will also solve almost all 9 move >>checkmates overnight, but some will take a weekend. It does more than a chess >>program ever could, in that it will write a detailed refutation table if you ask >>it to (though for 8 moves, you have better trim it down some by starting at a >>much later point or you'll be sorry). The version on Heiner's web site is >>already UNIX ready, so your Solaris port should be a snap. >> >>http://www.drb.insel.de/~heiner/Chess/chest.html >> > > I have saved the link. I will try to compile it next week. If you wish to keep >a Solaris binary of Chest in your ftp site, just say so and I will gladly send >it to you when I have it. > [snip] You were right, I have just compiled it and I had no problem at all, no modifications to the simple makefile were required. It seems to run fine, but I have tried only one position in an epd file. Again, if you wish to have the Solaris executable for this and future versions of Chest, I will be glad to provide them.
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