Hello!
I was taking a quick look in Chess2U forum and I found this info:
http://www.chess2u.com/t5136-popeye-updated#29618
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye- ... peye/4.59/
Reading the README.txt file, it looks like the author/s has/have improved a lot the speed of solving for some cases, and also has/have fixed some bugs that were in version 4.55 (the predecessor of 4.59). More versions are here.
It looks like Popeye is developped by many people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_f ... ems#Popeye
I have read great things about Popeye, but I have never tried it... it is time to do now.
Regards from Spain.
Ajedrecista.
New version: Popeye 4.59 (28th December 2011).
Moderators: hgm, Rebel, chrisw
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F.Huber
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Re: New version: Popeye 4.59 (28th December 2011).
Well, those 'great things' about Popeye are only about fairy chess problems (maybe also self-/help-mates). If you're just interested in usual orthodox mate problems then you'll be quite disappointed about Popeye - it's VERY slow for such problems.Ajedrecista wrote: I have read great things about Popeye, but I have never tried it... it is time to do now.
Regards,
Franz
PS. If you need a good GUI for Popeye you can try Fancy 2.9, a freeware shell:
http://free.of.pl/c/ccintorun/g/fancy.htm
Of course also PopyeUCI from my own site is another possibility, but since it's designed for UCI-GUIs (especially Arena) the handling of fairy pieces is rather complicated.
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Re: Solving................
Ajedrecista wrote:
I have read great things about Popeye, but I have never tried it... it is time to do now.
Popeye solving the impossible spinach problem:
SilvianR
PS: I don't know if this Popeye is Herr Popeye UCI (cracked/patched ready to work on every past-present-future ChessBase GmbH Hamburg Germany GUIs) !
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Re: Solving................
Sylwy wrote:Ajedrecista wrote:
I have read great things about Popeye, but I have never tried it... it is time to do now.
Popeye solving the impossible spinach problem:
SilvianR
PS: I don't know if this Popeye is Herr Popeye UCI (cracked/patched ready to work on every past-present-future ChessBase GmbH Hamburg Germany GUIs) !
Olive Oyl donarium for this new 4.59 version:
SilvianR