ChestUCI 4.6

[F.Huber]

New ChestUCI Ver.4.6 is available:

http://www.geocities.com/fhub55/

No dramatic improvements (especially not for the matesolver Chest itself), but just some new small features:

- a few additional infos are displayed in the analysis window
- now also mirror-positions (horizontal/vertical/diagonal/rotated) are recognized when searching the database for duplicates of the current position

- updated ChestUCI database with 6210 mates
- EPDUtil also checks for mirror-positions (with parameter '/xy')

Regards,
Franz.

[Marek Soszynski]

Many thanks Franz,

Chest is the only engine I would trust to solve mates properly.

Now, how about a multi-processor version?

[F.Huber]

Now, how about a multi-processor version?

Hello Marek,

only Heiner Marxen (the author of the underlying mate solver) would be able to make such a radical modification of his Chest engine - and probably we´ll not get something like that in the near future, I´m afraid.

It has been quite a long time ago when I was in contact with Heiner the last time, where I had a good idea for a new feature in ChestUCI, which required some small changes in the Chest engine. And although he said, that these changes would be no problem at all, I´ve never heard anything from him again. So I guess he either has no time or he´s no more interested in further developing Chest.

So I´m restricted to features only, that I can implement myself in ChestUCI ...

[F.Huber]

Too many downloads in too short time from my site, so here´s another link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/78416473/Ch ... 6.zip.html

[Denis P. Mendoza]

Too many downloads in too short time from my site, so here´s another link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/78416473/Ch ... 6.zip.html

That shows how popular ChestUCI is till now
I better start downloading this new toy and play with it! Thanks for the update Franz.

[Mish]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I have created chestUCI4.6 as a UCI engine in both Chessbase 9 and Fritz10. Whenever I add Chest as a kibitzer I the program will not analyse the position.

Is there any reason for this ?

Do I have to change the parameters before it will allow me to use the program ?

Thanks

[F.Huber]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I have created chestUCI4.6 as a UCI engine in both Chessbase 9 and Fritz10. Whenever I add Chest as a kibitzer I the program will not analyse the position.

Is there any reason for this ?

Do I have to change the parameters before it will allow me to use the program ?

Thanks

Hello Mike,

although it´s principally possible to use ChestUCI as a kibitz engine, it doesn´t make much sense to do so. ChestUCI is a matesolver but not a normal chess engine, and so it doesn´t display any intermediate analysis - you´ll only see an output when Chest has found a solution (i.e. a mate).

The right way to use ChestUCI is to just load it as main engine, and then start the analysis (of course only if you´re indeed searching for a mate).
And if you run ChestUCI in the Fritz-GUI don´t forget to open the ´Engine output´ window, otherwise you´ll lose some of its informations.

Regards,
Franz.