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Article #1463Re: ANNOUNCE: GNU Chess 5.06 released
From: Yanks Gerber
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 05:22
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 05:22
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i just hope strength doesn't get' sacrifised for any other enhancements to
the game.
Simon Waters <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> What is GNU Chess?
>
> GNU Chess is a free chess-playing program developed as part of
> the GNU project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
>
> GNU Chess is a communal chess program. Contributors donate their
> time and effort in order to make it a stronger, better, sleeker
> program. Contributions take many forms: interfaces to
> high-resolution displays, opening book treatises, speedups of
> the underlying algorithms, additions of extra heuristics. These
> contributions are then distributed to the large user-base so
> that all may enjoy the fruits of our labor.
>
> GNU Chess is written in C and should be portable to most general
> purpose computers.
>
>
> What is new in GNU Chess 5.06?
>
> * The computer will think in the opponents time (easy/hard).
>
> * Analysis mode has been implemented,allowing use of GNU Chess for
> analysis with programs that utilise the Winboard analysis protocol
> (primarily Winboard and Xboard), and also with some other programs (SCID).
>
> * The program now works with icsdrone, allowing it to play online at
> more chess servers (Winboard/Xboard Zippy mode was already supported).
>
> * The opening book may be stored in /usr/share/games/gnuchess/book.dat
>
> * The program implements additional command line options
> { help, version, hashsize }
>
> * hints are now available whilst still in the opening book.
>
>
> Where can I get GNU Chess 5.06?
>
> The source code is available at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/chess/ in
> file gnuchess-5.06.tar.gz
>
> A copy of the source is also available at
> http://www.wretched.demon.co.uk/R506/
>
>
> Where can I learn more ?
>
> More about GNU Chess, it's opening book, and graphical user
> interfaces may be found on the GNU project website.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess.html
>
>
> Where next with GNU Chess?
>
> GNU Chess 5 is still actively being developed. Planned for 5.07 are
> enhanced PGN parser, configuration file, and additional control over the
> playing style.
>
> Thanks to the many people who have contributed improvements and
> suggestions for this release.
>
>
> Supported Platforms - 5.06
>
> GCC is the supported compiler, other C compilers should work.
> 5.06 introduces a dependence on Posix threads.
>
> GNU Chess 5.06 has been tested on;
>
> Redhat Linux 7.0
> Debian Woody (i386 and PPC)
> HP-UX 11.11 with HP ANSI C and GNU GCC compilers
> HP-UX 11.22 with GCC
> TRU64 5.1b with Compaq C compiler
> FreeBSD 4.7 (Alpha)
> Solaris 2.5 and 2.7 with GCC
> MS Windows (Windows 98 using Cygwin)
>
> We have reports of minor issues with build process on HP-UX 11.22 with
> HP ANSI C compiler, and with AIX builds.
>
> We have reports of successful builds using other compilers on Microsoft
> platforms.
>
> (I have reports of 5.05 compiling for DOS and OS/2 using EMX, and builds
> and interfaces for IPAQ's being available).
>
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