Mater adapted for Free Pascal

[chessica]

Mater for Free Pascal has a new home page.

I polished a bit the whole project (without essential modification) and made binaries for Linux and Windows.

Hello, I have asked questions about the mater; Is the mate distance limited to a
maximum of mate in 12? And why are there two engines there? Or do I see that wrong?
How do you work with it?

[Roland Chastain]

Hello, I have asked questions about the mater; Is the mate distance limited to a
maximum of mate in 12? And why are there two engines there? Or do I see that wrong?
How do you work with it?

Hello. Sorry for the late answer. I have just seen your message.

Mater is a little program written for Turbo Pascal. I slightly modified it, mainly to understand how it works. With Franz Huber help, I fixed some bugs.

It's a command-line tool. You can see how to use it here.

I also made a GUI. I know that the usage of the GUI is not very clear. You load a position, either from a file, or from the clipboard, and you ask Mater to solve it. And yes, I included another (more efficient) engine, Chest.

Mater is not the most efficient mate finder available. The depth is not limited, but the engine will take a long time to search at high depth. Even depth 12 is too much. You can notice that the depth 12 example from the demo is a sequence of checks: the engine is called with -check option.

I hope I answered your questions.