Re: What is GNU Chess?

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From: Stuart Cracraft
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00

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It is a chess program written in C, source freely available. The motivation
was based on my observation back in the early 1980's that it was hard
(impossible?) to get good chess source code, and certainly the only code
that was available played horridly.

GNU Chess was written to make the computer chess hobbyist's and graduate
and undergraduate university student's life easier. John Stanback devoted
substantial time to version 2, donating a 7+ year polished program of his.
Since then, many people have worked on the code and it has been wholly
revised.

The program plays reasonably on decent hardware.

At 02:51 PM 1/1/96 -0600, Brian Oakley wrote:
>Im pretty new to chess programs. What is GNU chess? Where can I find it?
>Brian Oakley  boakley@dfw.net
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Stuart Cracraft

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