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Hello All,

A fast gnuchess505.exe, built with MSVC, is also available at

http://web.wt.net/~chess/

-Mike

"Dann Corbit" <dcorbit@connx.com> wrote in
news:aliufg01h9c@enews2.newsguy.com: 

> "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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