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Hi,

just to announce that Stuart Cracraft has asked if I'd be
interested in maintaining the GNU chess 5 source code, and I
have agreed.

My first measure has been to load the 5.02 code base (less the
rather large opening book) into the GNU CVS respository (See
http://savannah.gnu.org for the GNU version of SourceForge).

Anonymous access using CVS is available to all interested
parties.

Shortly I will be loading up a final batch of updates from
Stuart into the repository, and will then start applying some
other bug fixes that have been submitted by various users.

I am not intending to perform any extensive development on
GNUchess 5.02, I see the priorities as;

Apply existing Bug fixes.
Create and apply new bug fixes as required.
Correct/Improve bundled documentation.
Address issues with building the distribution.

It is also intended to clean up the eval.c code as it is hard to
read, and contains some "logical errors" that adversely affect
endgame play.

We will however be happy to accept substantial contributions
from other developers, and trust that the use of CVS will make
the task of keeping your local copy up to date easier.

We hope to make a 5.03 release as soon as all existing bug fixes
and corrections have been applied.

I would like to thank Stuart for his hard work (and patience
whilst I learnt the hard way not to fiddle too much with the
code), and trust when his work commitments permit he will be
back for GNU chess 6.

Stuart remains the administrator of the GNU chess project, we
will no doubt look for his guidance in future.

I will use the GNU chess Usenet newsgroup for further
announcements relating to GNU chess 5, if you would like
updates, but can not use that forum, please let me know.
Apologies if you received this e-mail in error.

	Simon Waters
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