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Article #2028Re: Mate 2.0
From: Anders Thulin
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 13:33
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 13:33
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CCCage wrote: Please ... when you cross-post that widely, specify to which group followups should go. > What is the best mate finder program available now, either commercially or > freeware. 'Best' in what context? The fastest? Producing complete solutions? Able to accept the widest type of problem formulations? Or something else? I like Problemist. It's quite fast, and it produces solutions that I can actually use in other applications, like Word. And I configure several of the most important parameters of how the solution should be represented. It's a little limited -- max #5, although on the fastest systems I think it should be possible to go higher. And it's self-mate mode requries some care -- checks in the next to last ply are not written out in the solution. Popeye accepts more unorthodox pieces and stipulations. But it does not always produce a complete solution. It's batch-oriented, and it takes some time to get the problem files right. (I haven't tried the GUI front-end -- available on some site in Italy, if I recall.) I have heard a lot of good about Alybadix, but I have not tried it out recently. The version I did try several years ago was horrible -- it may have solved the problem, but it was useless to try to do something with the solution. -- Anders Thulin ath@algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath
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