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From: cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.games.chess,gnu.chess,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: GNU Chess for IBM PC now available
Message-ID: <8937@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 9 Jun 90 14:20:15 GMT
Reply-To: cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu
Organization: Project GNU
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A new version of GNU Chess is available. This version
will run on the IBM PC and compatibles. It will 
compile under Microsoft C, though due to brain-damage in
the Microsoft Make, a UNIX-compatible make is necessary
(or hand-making).

GNU is not in the business of supporting DOS, however
the contributors to GNU Chess felt there are so many
DOS machines (often with miserable chess programs)
they were obligated to do something.

The new distribution includes improvements to heuristics.

Running on a RISC-chip (Sparc), this program has defeated
another program which is a rated chessmaster. On the new 486
chip, a 25mhz cached version should have similar performance.
A 33mhz version should be moderately stronger. We are interested
in people who would like to port to and test on the Intel
i860 chip. Full details in the distribution.

The release is available from prep.ai.mit.edu
via anonymous ftp. The filename is:

	gnuchess-3.1.tar.Z

A checksum for this file is its byte length: 278221.
If the file is not there when you look, try again
later. Update time is required due to personnel 
constraints/limitations.

	Stuart