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From: esmith@apple.com (Eric Smith)
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Subject: Re: GNU Chess for IBM PC now available
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In article <8937@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> cracraft@wheaties.ai.mit.edu 
(Stuart Cracraft) writes:
> 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.

I'm currently working on this, as I have a fairly large bet with an
associate who believes that I can't build a machine that can beat him
under certain time constraints.  I'm a very poor chess player myself,
but I thought this would be an interesting challenge.

I'm building the hardware now.  I'm using 2 megabytes of high-speed
static RAM.  I haven't done to much with/to the software yet, but since
it didn't take too much effort to get it running on a Macintosh, I don't
expect much trouble with the i860 if (a big if!) the compiler is stable.

Eric Smith
(408) 974-7791
esmith@apple.com

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