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| (1) Posted by Thomas Maeder [Monday, Dec 7, 2009 21:28] |
Popeye 4.53 released
The Popeye team is happy to announce Popeye 4.53, available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/popeye-chess/ .
As always, feedback is very welcome; please use the appropriate "Tracker" on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=200122 .
Popeye 4.53 Release Notes
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New features (feature request number in parentheses)
- fairy pieces are accepted in a=>b (2799219)
- last capture (pending rebirth) can be indicated for Circe Parrain
- support for mutually exclusive castlings (2768589)
- support for Cage Circe, Cage Immune Chess and Strict Cage Circe (= Cage Circe + Cage Immune Chess)
- proof games with Cavalier majeur and Leofamily (2813613)
Bug fixes (issue number in parentheses)
- Bicolores: some battery mates with rear piece of the same color as the king to be mated were not found (2796512)
- Ghost chess: neutral ghosts weren't correctly summoned (2797376)
- Extinction chess: didn't work at all (2800351)
- Intelligent mode/proof games/a=>b: Circe rebirths were given with the wrong color in duplex solutions (2801347)
- Fairy proof games: some weren't correctly solved if the board was printed in the output (i.e. option noboard was not set) (2790570)
- Single box: slightly better (but still far from perfect) integration with other fairy conditions (2790694)
- Helpreflexmate didn't find solutions where White could deliver mate in 1 after its own move (2809490)
- option WhiteToPlay didn't work in Helpreflex stipulations (2819822)
- Fixed numbering of twin solutions in output for problems with >30 parts
- Losing Chess: prevent kings from castling after they have moved
- Spurious threats were given in reflexmate if White can deliver mate after the key (2843251)
- Popeye 4.51 found spurious solutions in AMU
- Popeye 4.51 didn't allow a reborn rook to castle in proof games (2886962)
See http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=972237&group_id=200122&func=browse
for a list of issues and
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=200122&atid=972240 for a list of
feature requests.
Otherwise changed behavior
- drastic speed improvement for series-movers (compensation for almost the entire performance loss introduced with Popeye 4.51)
- option MaxSolutions is no longer ignored when a X1 or sX1 (for any goal X) is solved
- option MaxTime is supported (again) by Windows executables (2804322)
- improved calculation of default amount of allocated memory (should run on Windows Vista without the need to indicate -maxmem)
- if option MoveNumbers is selected, the move numbers are now written *before* the respective move is tried; the first move number is written when Popeye is done looking for short solutions.
- changed default type of Antisupercirce from Cheylan to Calvet
NB: Not (yet) available in Popeye 4.53:
- Parry series
- Volcanic Circe
- Parachute Circe
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| (2) Posted by Joost de Heer [Monday, Dec 7, 2009 21:54] |
- Source won't compile on Linux:
[joost@router 4.53]$ make -f makefile.unx
makefile.unx:346: depend: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `gengmarr.c', needed by `gengmarr.o'. Stop.
So I decided to build the CVS-code, and this resulted in very weird results:
Popeye Linux-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686-i686-32Bit v4.53 (1024 MB)
+---a---b---c---d---e---f---g---h---+
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8 . . . . . . . . 8
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7 . . . . . . . . 7
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6 . . . . . . . . 6
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5 . . . . . . . . 5
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4 . . . . . . . . 4
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3 R . . . . . -P . 3
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2 . . . . K . . -P 2
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1 . . . . S . . -K 1
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+---a---b---c---d---e---f---g---h---+
#3 3 + 3
1.Ra3-a1 ! threat:
2.Ke2-f3 threat:
3.Se1-g2 #
3.Se1-d3 #
3.Se1-c2 #
2...g3-g2
3.Se1*g2 #
2.Se1-d3 +
2...Kh1-g2
3.Sd3-f4 #
1...Kh1-g1
2.Se1-d3 +
2...Kg1-g2
3.Sd3-f4 #
1...g3-g2
1.Ra3-a2 ! zugzwang.
1...Kh1-g1
1...g3-g2
1.Ra3-a8 ! zugzwang.
1...Kh1-g1
1...g3-g2
1.Ra3-a7 ! zugzwang.
1...Kh1-g1
1...g3-g2
1.Ra3-a6 ! zugzwang.
1...Kh1-g1
1...g3-g2
1.Ra3-a5 ! zugzwang.
1...Kh1-g1
1...g3-g2
[etc etc]
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| (3) Posted by Thomas Maeder [Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 06:53]; edited by Thomas Maeder [09-12-08] |
QUOTE
makefile.unx:346: depend: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target `gengmarr.c', needed by `gengmarr.o'. Stop.
depend and gengmarr.c were in fact missing from popeye-4.53-sources.zip. I have just uploaded a revised popeye-4.53-sources.zip.
As for the Windows executables, something really strange has happened. I have decided to temporarily retract them.
I'm confident to sort out this issue tonight.
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| (4) Posted by Thomas Maeder [Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 07:03] |
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The Popeye team is happy to announce Popeye 4.53
Oh, and Google has immediately reacted! :-)
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| (5) Posted by Thomas Maeder [Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 23:50] |
QUOTE
As for the Windows executables, something really strange has happened. I have decided to temporarily retract them.
I'm confident to sort out this issue tonight.
It was a really weird effect that I hadn't seen any time before, but luckily, I was finally able to sort it out.
The new Windows and sources archives are now available; I have dediced not to increase the version number again since it's only 1 day since the announcement.
Thanks for the patience and sorry for any confusion caused.
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