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DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by lucasart » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:36 am

http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2363

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by geots » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:46 am

lucasart wrote:http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2363

I'm using Open Chess, because I cannot attach files in this forum.



Thanks for the release, my friend. I realize I am becoming a pest- but is there ANY WAY POSSIBLE you would consider going back to "DoubleCheck"??


All the best, (As always)-

gts

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by Graham Banks » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:16 am

Thanks Lucas. Any chance of a compile for no-SSE comps as well?

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by lucasart » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:28 am

Graham Banks wrote:Thanks Lucas. Any chance of a compile for no-SSE comps as well?

Graham.
There's no such thing as "no SSE comp":
* Intel: SSE2 arrived with the Pentium M, which came before the first 64-bit Intel CPUs.
* AMD: SSE2 arrived with k8, opteron, athlon64, athlon-fx. And athlon64 is the first AMD to support 64-bit.

So 64-bit implies at least SSE 2 compliant.

The only things that are really missing are: an Android (32-bit) compile and a MacOSX compile. While MacOSX users can compile it themselves, compiling for Android it not so trivial, and you typically don't compile on a cell phone (most people cross compile on Linux).
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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by lucasart » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:47 am

geots wrote:
lucasart wrote:http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2363

I'm using Open Chess, because I cannot attach files in this forum.
Thanks for the release, my friend. I realize I am becoming a pest- but is there ANY WAY POSSIBLE you would consider going back to "DoubleCheck"??

All the best, (As always)-

gts
You never stop spamming, do you?

If you continue, I'll call the next version something REALLY stupid.
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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by Graham Banks » Sun Jul 14, 2013 6:17 am

lucasart wrote:
Graham Banks wrote:Thanks Lucas. Any chance of a compile for no-SSE comps as well?

Graham.
There's no such thing as "no SSE comp":
* Intel: SSE2 arrived with the Pentium M, which came before the first 64-bit Intel CPUs.
* AMD: SSE2 arrived with k8, opteron, athlon64, athlon-fx. And athlon64 is the first AMD to support 64-bit.

So 64-bit implies at least SSE 2 compliant.

The only things that are really missing are: an Android (32-bit) compile and a MacOSX compile. While MacOSX users can compile it themselves, compiling for Android it not so trivial, and you typically don't compile on a cell phone (most people cross compile on Linux).
Okay. Thanks for explaining. 8-)
You can tell that I'm no expert when it comes to hardware.

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by geots » Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:47 am

lucasart wrote:
geots wrote:
lucasart wrote:http://open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2363

I'm using Open Chess, because I cannot attach files in this forum.
Thanks for the release, my friend. I realize I am becoming a pest- but is there ANY WAY POSSIBLE you would consider going back to "DoubleCheck"??

All the best, (As always)-

gts
You never stop spamming, do you?

If you continue, I'll call the next version something REALLY stupid.




:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


All the best,

george

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by Mike S. » Sun Jul 14, 2013 2:08 pm

I vote for "DoubleDisco" :mrgreen: For example,
[D]1B6/8/1pk5/1rq2K2/8/5N2/6B1/8 w - - 0 1
White defends the check with a double disco, and suddenly it's mate: Ne5#

(I think that's a Mustermatt?)
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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by Günther Höhne » Sun Jul 14, 2013 4:31 pm

Shame that the engine does not ponder mode.

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Re: DiscoCheck 4.3 is out

Post by lucasart » Mon Jul 15, 2013 11:04 am

Mike S. wrote:I vote for "DoubleDisco" :mrgreen: For example,
[D]1B6/8/1pk5/1rq2K2/8/5N2/6B1/8 w - - 0 1
White defends the check with a double disco, and suddenly it's mate: Ne5#

(I think that's a Mustermatt?)
Nice mate!

But DoubleDisco is redundant: double check implies disco check (reverse is not true).

How about "DiscoMate" ?
:lol:
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