Delivery-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:21:42 -0700 Return-Path: pachydrm Received: by src-mail.pa.dec.com; id JAA13560; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:21:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pachyderm.pa.dec.com; id JAA27295; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 09:21:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Pachyderm-Resent: by mann; to mann Path: src.dec.com!pa.dec.com!news1.digital.com!news.isc.org!newsfeed.stanford.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!nntp.earthlink.net!posted-from-earthlink!not-for-mail From: cracraft@earthlink.net (Stuart Cracraft) Newsgroups: gnu.chess Subject: GNU Chess 5 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 01:00:57 GMT X-ELN-Insert-Date: Sat Oct 9 18:05:14 1999 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. X-Posted-Path-Was: not-for-mail Lines: 197 NNTP-Posting-Host: pool0151.cvx18-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net X-ELN-Date: 10 Oct 1999 01:01:54 GMT Message-ID: <37ffe17a.94055105@news.earthlink.net> Status: 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 [ Most GNU software is compressed using the GNU `gzip' compression program. 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