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Article #4031GNU Chess 4.0 pl75 for Windows
From: Stuart Cracraft
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
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On prep.ai.mit.edu (18.159.0.42) is a port of GNU Chess 4.0 patchlevel 75 (which is the latest published patchlevel of the Unix version) to Windows/Windows 95. It is available via anonymous ftp in: pub/gnu/gnuchessPC-4.0.pl75.zip Since this is the first port of GNU Chess to Windows in quite some time (since version 3.21), let's hope you're pleased rather than shocked. Also historic is that this is the first port of GNU Chess to the PC to be at parity with the current distributed version. Send all comments/bugs to bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu. This distribution is in a zip-file since you should download it in binary mode directly to a PC, pkunzip it there, and then run GNUCHESS.EXE connected to the same directory from Windows. It is adequte to do File/Run/GNUCHESSDIRECTORY/GNUCHESS.EXE in Windows or Start/Run/GNUCHESSDIRECTORY/GNUCHESS.EXE in Windows 95. Since our Windows NT tester never reported back, we would assume the former could be tried. If you use Windows NT, please let me know what you experience when running it. The basic GUI has been kept. There are improvements though. The program has been purposely set on weaker settings by default upon startup. To resume strength, go to the Skill menu and unset Easy, and select a time of 60 moves in 5 minutes. By default, the program will start up with Easy set (i.e. does not think your time) and 60 moves in 1 minute. This version is by Conor McCarthy. Let's all thank Conor for his hard work. If you send your email to bug-gnu-chess@prep.ai.mit.edu, it will reach all developers. --Stuart
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,e8347e4a2ffe217a,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public From: cracraft@cheerios.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) Subject: GNU Chess 4.0 pl75 for Windows Date: 1996/04/11 Message-ID: <4kjuoh$hsl@life.ai.mit.edu> X-Deja-AN: 146991443 organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab newsgroups: gnu.chess