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by lostman
Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:07 am
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Gardner's minichess solved
Replies: 12
Views: 8833

Re: Gardner's minichess solved

A new official patch for scid has been mais :
it is in subversion and can be applied with
"svn update"
"patch -p0 <patches/minichess5x5.diff"
"make clean install"


The webpage is http://membres-lig.imag.fr/prost/MiniChessResolution/
by lostman
Sat Sep 21, 2013 9:10 am
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Gardner's minichess solved
Replies: 12
Views: 8833

Re: Gardner's minichess solved

We are sorry that we didn't manage to make an exe for scid for windows.

We have this line
3.Qxd3 f4 4.Rb3 d4 5.cxd4 Qc4 6.d5 Bxd5 7.exd5 Qxd5 8.Ne4+ Ke6 9.Nc5+ Kd6 10.Ke2 Kc6 11.Qxd5+ Kxd5 12.Rd3+ Kc6 13.Rd2 e4 14.fxe4 Be5 15.Rd5 Bf6 16.Ne6 f3+ 17.Kxf3 Bc3 18.Ncd4+ Bxd4 19.Nxd4+ )

and in your ...
by lostman
Sat Sep 14, 2013 11:16 am
Forum: Programming and Technical Discussions
Topic: Gardner's minichess solved
Replies: 12
Views: 8833

Re: Gardner's minichess solved

The fact that it is theoretically a draw doesn't mean that it is not interesting to play, there are positions that are very challenging even with the engine we made:
for example the 4 positions below where the side that play can win but its a challeging checkmate. (they come from analyzing different ...