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Alybadix or WinChloe or Popeye favor requested - 2006/08/28 15:19
I have composed a moderately complicated helpstalemate whose intended solution involves White capturing a Black unit on every move, and I want to computer-test it for soundness. I have Popeye, but it's taking forever. I thought I might do a partial soundness test by adding the condition "WhiteMustCapture," but this evidently doesn't mean what I hoped it meant, because popeye finished quickly without finding my intended solutions (and my intended solutions definitely do work---not only is this trivially verifiable by hand, I even took the extra step of computer-testing it just to make sure I wasn't hallucinating!).
I'm morally certain that if my problem is cooked, then the cook will involve at most two non-capture moves by White. I've heard that
Alybadix has an option that will do what I want, but I don't have
Alybadix. I was wondering if someone here who owns Alybadix (or
WinChloe or any other solving program, if it has a similar forced- capture option) would be willing to do me a favor and help verify my composition?
By the way, this composition is supposed to be a surprise gift for someone and so I want to keep it as secret as possible, which is why
I'm not posting it. Obviously, though, if you volunteer to help me,
I'll send it to you. It's a h=4.5 with (7+7) units and 2 solutions..
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