🚀 go-pugleaf

"Simon Waters" <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3C72CB2A.99A9458B@wretched.demon.co.uk...
> GNU/Chess 5.03 is now available.
>
> Download it from mirror sites listed at;
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/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.
>
>
>
> Changes of Note:
>
> Build procedure now follows GNU conventions (./configure ; make)
>
> The opening book has been removed from the distribution to
> reduce size.
> (The opening book is now "book_1.00.pgn.gz").
>
> The opening book now compiles much faster.
>
> The compiled opening book should be architecture independent.
>
> All illegal moves, comments, and duplicates, have been removed
> from the opening book.
>
> Player names in the opening book are now consistent
> (The free chess database tool SCID was used for many of these
> changes)
>
> "bk" command implemented allows querying of the opening book.
>
> The command line help is now useful.
>
> The command line now utilizes "readline" if present at compile
> time.
>
> The input problem reported in BUGTRAQ is fixed (This was first
> fixed in 5.03beta).
>
> A log file bug was corrected to avoid stray illegal moves being
> printed to the log file.
>
> Other changes noted in the announcement of 5.03beta still apply.
> In particular the default hash size is much lower than 5.02 to
> make it easier to build on machines with limited memory.
>
> (To increase hashsize with xboard add the following to
> ~/.Xdefaults "XBoard*initString: new\nhashsize 1000000")
>
>
> Commentary:
>
> The new build procedure means GNU/Chess may have different
> optimization options on your platform, if you encounter dramatic
> slow downs since 5.02 please report the platform and version of
> GCC used, and any options that helped resolve the problem.
>
> Fixing a bug in the handling of searches that exhausted their
> time limit, means the program no longer plays certain "silly"
> moves.
>
> A number of contributed patches have substantially improved the
> book handling. Users will need to recreate the "book.dat" file
> from the PGN file, fortunately this is much faster than in 5.02.
> The new book.dat file format is portable, but we prefer to
> distribute the PGN file.
>
> The program is now slightly stronger than 5.02 in playing
> strength, the improved opening book handling make building a
> more extensive opening book, and learning from it a more
> pleasant experience.
>
> The latest development version is now available from the GNU web
> site via anonymous CVS.
>
> Thanks to the many people who submitted patches, reported bugs,
> and otherwise made this release possible.
>
> Have fun,

Here is my tweaked version (the stock version won't even build on my PC):
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/GnuChess-503.exe

Modified Sources:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/gnuchess503.ZIP
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