🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3741CDF2.2F2AA31F@Chicagonet.net>,
PMG  <avoga@Chicagonet.net> wrote:
>Can anyone fill me in as to the current state of developement of the GNU
>Chess engine? Is it something that is aimed at acheiving certain goals
>before we see the next release, or is it something that generally floats
>around aimlessly? Can we maybe expect to see endgame tablebase use?
>Please note that none of my questions are meant to insult anyones
>efforts, I am only wondering.
>
>Pete Galati.

It has been three years since any changes were made to the GNU Chess
engine.  (The tiny changes in pl78 and pl79 did not affect the
functionality of the engine.)  I believe no one is working on it, so
there are no efforts for you to insult.  You should not expect any
more releases.

It's always possible that someone will take up the project again in
the future, but I think the current engine is at a dead end.  Maybe
someone will write a new engine and call it GNU Chess 5.0, but I don't
know of anyone planning to.

         --Tim Mann
           GNU Chess FAQ maintainer
-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>, Compaq Systems Research Center
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/