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Subject: Re: Algorithms for solving helpmates?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:09:59 01/10/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 16:56:44, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

>>>I'm still looking for public source for other search techniques, such as
>>>proof-number search.
>>>
>>>IanO
>>
>>Heiner
>
>Look for Popeye, the best problem solving program ever written.
>The sources are public.
>The program solves nearly every problem. It manages some hundreds
>of fairy pieces, the christmas puzzle should not be a problem.

Here is a Win32 port:
ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Popeye/popeye.ZIP

You have to use the horrible Popeye language to use it.  But since it plays
fairy chess, there is really no way around it.  I would be interested to see how
it does on the remaining "tough" 9 move checkmate problems.  It does have some
very clever ideas implemented (e.g. dynamic hash tables!) but I am much too lazy
to set up and interpret problems in the Popeye language.




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