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Chesstool does not cheat

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From: Bruce Samuelson
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1989 04:39
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> After reading about gammontool, it is only fair that I point out that
> chesstool will perform "en passant" but does not allow the user to do so.

To capture en passant, move your pawn horizontally on top of the pawn
you're capturing.  Chesstool will then automatically place your pawn one
square forward where it really belongs.

I would also like to see a way of increasing the difficulty as well as a
way to set it for rapid play, and to have a better opening book.  I think
I've heard of some kind of GNU chess which is supposed to have a good
opening book.  Anyone using a version that runs under SunView?

At a Sun booth at a conference I played a chess program that was running
on a network of Suns, with several cpus thinking at once.  It was
noticeably stronger than chesstool on my Sun 3/50.
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