Searching for Gustav mate solver

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David Dahlem
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Searching for Gustav mate solver

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I tried to find the Gustav mate solver with Google, but was unsuccesful. I think there is an old dos version and a newer windows version, is this correct?

Any idea where to find the windows version?

Thanks in advance.
Dave
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Jim Ablett
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Re: Searching for Gustav mate solver

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David Dahlem wrote:I tried to find the Gustav mate solver with Google, but was unsuccesful. I think there is an old dos version and a newer windows version, is this correct?

Any idea where to find the windows version?

Thanks in advance.
Dave
Hi David,

I did a bit of Googling too. Seems you have to buy Windows version direct from author by email.
Here is the page I found (email address is on there) >
http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/ ... ybadix.htm

Jim.
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David Dahlem
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Re: Searching for Gustav mate solver

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Jim Ablett wrote:
David Dahlem wrote:I tried to find the Gustav mate solver with Google, but was unsuccesful. I think there is an old dos version and a newer windows version, is this correct?

Any idea where to find the windows version?

Thanks in advance.
Dave
Hi David,

I did a bit of Googling too. Seems you have to buy Windows version direct from author by email.
Here is the page I found (email address is on there) >
http://web.telecom.cz/vaclav.kotesovec/ ... ybadix.htm

Jim.
Thanks for the link, Jim. Looks like an interesting program, except for one thing -

"Program and manual is only in German" :cry:
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Re: Searching for Gustav mate solver

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I've been hoping for years that somebody would write a proper multi-thread mate solver. Maybe Robert Hyatt could strip out all the crafty evaluation code (except for mate checking) and make that available? It would surely make solving those mate-in-19 type positions much quicker?