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> questions:  what is the precise ftp location of the newest version of gnu 
> chess for win 3.1?  likewise for xboard for win 3.1?  what is emacs?
> 
> sorry to bother you with such basic questions, but I need to get my foot in 
> the door. Please respond directly if possible: dbhale@uic.edu, to save other 
> experienced gnuers having to rehash such basic stuff. 

I cc'ed this to the list/newsgroup because it is a frequently asked 
question for which people don't always understand the answer in the FAQ. 

No one is maintaining a graphical version of GNU Chess for Windows 
3.1.  The newest one I know of is GNU Chess for Windows 3.21, which 
is several years old, and is based on GNU Chess 3.1, not 4.0.  You can 
ftp it from ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/DOS/OLD-STUFF/chess321.exe . 

There are newer text-only versions for DOS, which also run in a DOS 
box under Windows.  The newest pre-compiled one available for ftp 
that I'm aware of is quite old: 4.0.pl62 dating from 1993.  You can 
ftp it from ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/DOS/OLD-STUFF/gnu40-62.exe .
Or you can ftp the latest GNU Chess source and compile it yourself, 
though you may have to make minor edits to get it to compile.  The 
latest source is always in ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gnuchess*.gz .

There is no such thing as xboard for Windows 3.1.  WinBoard is a 
port of xboard to Windows 95 and Windows NT, but it essentially does 
not work on Windows 3.1, not even under Win32s.  The WinBoard distribution 
includes a port of GNU Chess 4.0.pl75 to Win32.  You can get all 
the latest xboard and WinBoard stuff from my Web chess page, 
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html ,
or look on the chess.onenet.net ftp site.

    --Tim