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Downloading YChess 1.08

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Alastair Scott

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Jul 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/30/96
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I've been trying to download it from:

http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e8925162/ychess.html

However, the ARJ file, ychs108.arj, appears to be corrupted; I am getting a 48K
file, whereas the header suggests it should be 100K+. As far as I can see, from
a FTP search at http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/ftpsearch/, the file is not mirrored
anywhere else. Emailing the program's author hasn't solicited a reply.

Has anyone had any luck?

Thanks in advance,

Alastair
sco...@logica.com

Alastair Scott

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Jul 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/30/96
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:30:35 GMT, sco...@logica.com (Alastair Scott) wrote:

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Got it (thanks to Roland Pfister) and I've uploaded it to the University of
Pittsburgh archive:

ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/Uploads/ychs108.zip

A nice program!

Alastair

Komputer Korner

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Jul 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/30/96
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I have never heard of Y chess. What makes it unique/nice?
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Komputer Korner

Alastair Scott

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Jul 30, 1996, 3:00:00 AM7/30/96
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:16:27 -0400, Komputer Korner <kor...@netcom.ca> wrote:

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>I have never heard of Y chess. What makes it unique/nice?
>--
>Komputer Korner

Me neither till I found its URL by accident.

I am impressed because:

1. It is very small (four files; the program itself is 120KB);

2. It has infinitely flexible time controls. You can set almost anything - if
you wanted you could have "game in 25 minutes" or "45 moves in 1 hour 10
minutes";

3. For a free program - and for quite a lot of not-so-free programs - it has a
lot of features: hash tables, transposition tables, ability to recognise
transpositions from the opening book, game analysis, mouse control, mate search
and fixed depth search, randomise play, easy mode, position setup, tablebases
for KQK and KRK and so on;

4. It has good VGA graphics (down with character-based boards!);

5. I've only had a quick look, but it appears to play a strong game: "strong"
with respect to me - Elo 2000 - on a Pentium 133.

The only omission - and a peculiar one - is that games can neither be saved nor
loaded! Other than that it seems to be a remarkable effort by the author.

Alastair

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