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"Simon Waters" <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3D7B38B3.8CBCF33F@wretched.demon.co.uk...
> GNU Chess 5.05 is ready to test.
>
> Assuming no major problems are found these files will form the
> basis of the GNU Chess 5.05 release.
>
> http://www.wretched.demon.co.uk/505/
>
> cksum *
> 523296072 3550367 book.dat
> 3342515064 314537 gnuches5.exe
> 3220320685 18270 gnuches5.txt
> 2951535090 165321 gnuchess-5.05.tar.gz
> 4258714437 140232 gnuchess_linux_gcc3.1_noreadline
>
> 5.05 is a bug fix release.
>
>  Pin and hung piece detection is reintroduced.
>  Move sorting is improved.
>  Errors handling unusually long EPD format positions have been
> fixed.
>  Command line input is more robust.
>  Program will now look for book.dat in a selection of places
> allowing centralised book.dat on *nix systems.
>  Errors identified by the VMS C compiler corrected - GNU Chess
> should build relatively painlessly on VMS.
>  Many errors identified by splint have been corrected.
>  Default book building behaviour stops many moves earlier,
> producing smaller book.
>
> This version should play better chess, and be more robust than
> all previous GNU Chess 5 releases.
>
> Known issues;
>  white/black commands do not conform to protocol specification.
>  Inadequate sanity checking on size of hashtables.
>  Program 'worries' too much about having Knights pinned by
> Bishops.
>
>
> Windows Users
>
> The gnuches5.exe file is intended for Winboard users. It relies
> on Cygwin functionality and so will not work on systems without
> relevant libraries, Winboard includes these libraries.
>
> Winboard users should backup existing Winboard files, and save;
>  gnuches5.exe
>  book.dat
>  gnuches5.txt
> over the existing files (in C:\Program Files\Winboard by
> default).
>
> gnuches5.txt is a DOS text file version of the current README,
> to overwrite the existing file. The new file has DOS EOL and EOF
> markers so will display correctly in Notepad, unlike the old
> one.
>
> If you have only installed Winboard 4.26, this upgrade includes
> "Book" and "Hint" functionality over gnuchess 5.02+ version
> shipped with Winboard.
>
> The gnuches5.exe executable was tested with Winboard 4.26, on
> Windows 95.
>
>
> GNU/Linux Users
>
> An updated executable "gnuchess_linux_gcc3.1_noreadline" is
> supplied for those who don't feel like installing from source.
>
>
> Others
>
> Efforts have been made to ensure this program can be easily
> compiled under some third party compilers. It in noted that for
> some CPUs GCC 3.1 produces substantially faster code than GCC 2
> series compilers from this source. Normal GNU build procedure;
> "./configure ; make ; make install" should apply.
>
>
> Care has been taken to ensure executable files are virus free,
> use at your own risk.
>
> Please report any problems with GNU Chess 5 to
> bug-gnu-chess@gnu.org
> GNU Chess 4 and earlier are no longer supported.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, bug reports, and
> ideas.

Here is a native Win32 build that does not rely upon Cygwin:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/GnuChess-505.exe

Here are the modified source files, build scripts, etc:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/GnuCh-5.ZIP

There are dozens of small bug fixes (mostly formatting problems like doing a
scanf() on an int with %hd and things like that).

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