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In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950609153505.4051A-100000@student.canberra.edu.au> Thang <u952027@student.canberra.edu.au> writes:
> forgive me of being stupid, but what is GNU chess anyway?
> and do anyone have a shareware or know where i can get a shareware version?

GNU Chess is a software package (gnuchess) that plays
human-vs-computer chess.  The sources are protected by the GNU General
Public License, allowing anyone to have access to the sources and thus
learn from them as well as enjoy a good game of chess.  This also
means that you'll usually need to compile it yourself to play it
locally.

GNU Chess, according to its own docs, plays at about 2350-2400 USCF on
a Sparc 1.  Faster CPUs, obviously, give it a higher rating.

The gnu.chess newsgroup is for the discussion of developing the GNU
Chess software itself.  Contrast with rec.games.chess, which is for
people *playing* chess.

GNU Chess sources are at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gnuchess-4.0.pl74.tar.gz

WebChess, a WWW interface to GNUchess (for those of you who can't
build gnuchess locally but can run a graphical web browser) is
available at http://www.delorie.com/game-room/chess/ (my machine).

DOS/Windows binaries are available somewhere on the 'net also.

DJ
dj@delorie.com
http://www.delorie.com/