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Stuart Cracraft

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Oct 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/10/99

GNU Chess is a computer program which plays the Game of Chess.

Also called The Royal Game, Chess is a game of tactics
and to a lesser extent strategy, shrouded in antiquity.
It is considered the intellectual game par excellance,
outside of the Far East but has found expression there
as well in Shogi of Japan and Chinese Chess of China.

Invented in India and popularized in ancient Persia,
the Game of Chess spread worldwide with the British Empire
and was a favorite game of the English Kings and their courts.

GNU Chess runs on GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows NT/95/98/etc
and supports full GUI's and a unique non-GUI interface.
At only 11,000 lines of code, GNU Chess is 1/4 the
length of Crafty.

This version of GNU Chess shares no code with previous versions.

GNU Chess 5.00 is written so as to try to clearly enable
and further the computer science student's understanding
and appreciation of the domain of computer chess and those
concepts through a clear simplification of code and data
structures, while still allowing a good challenge for playing.

Now available, find it at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html

and

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess-5.00.tar.gz

GNU Chess has scored at approximately the same playing levels on the
Free Internet Chess Server as its predecessors, where it has played
over
9000 games in this version alone. Due to variability in hardware and
availability of test platforms, as well as simply available free time,

an exact comparison is not possible and probably not productive.

Interfaces supported by this version include:

3-dimensional wooden playing board
plain text ascii
Winboard (PC GUI)
Xboard (UNIX GUI)

The Authors of GNU Chess v5.00 are Chua Kong-Sian and Stuart Cracraft.

GNU Chess's web page is

http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html

All new development and support will be done with GNU Chess version
5.00 and
its successors only. No support will be provided for prior versions
going forward.

Stuart Cracraft

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The above software will soon be at these ftp sites as well.
Please try them before ftp.gnu.org as ftp.gnu.org is very busy!
A possibly more up-to-date list is at the URL
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

thanx -g...@gnu.org

Here are the mirrored ftp sites for the GNU Project, listed by
country:

Gilbert Billiau

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Oct 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/10/99

Great news !!!
You should post this on the CCC too.
Where could we have this version in binary (precompiles version) ?

Stuart Cracraft <crac...@earthlink.net> a écrit dans le message :
37ffe17a...@news.earthlink.net...

Dann Corbit

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Oct 12, 1999, 3:00:00 AM10/12/99

I have made a port of GNU Chess 5 to Win32. It is a quick and very dirty
hack of the original, but I think it will probably play OK.

From the Readme.txt file for this version:

"This version of GNUChess 5.0 has been savagely tweaked by Dann Corbit
(dco...@solutionsiq.com). If something goes wrong, it is probably
something I did, not the original author. Therefore, this code is supplied
"AS IS" with no support or apologies. I did the port as a favor for my
German friends and hope that they find it useful. Since it comes with
source code, you can fix anything that is broken, given enough time.

So don't complain to me, and *ESPECIALLY* don't complain to Stuart Cracraft
who is not responsible for any problems in this code."

It would be nice if someone has the time to go over it and do it properly
(like I started to). DO NOT mix this source base with that of your original
download. I changed hundreds of lines of code and you might be sorry.

Anyway, here it is:
ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/gnuch5.ZIP
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