🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, 

I apologize that this seems ignorant compared to the recondite stuff
in this newsgroup, but I was given a gnuchess executable file for
my PC, and having won and lost a bit, wondered if I could tinker with the
code.

I gather that the philosophy of gnu is that people work on programs
for fun and make their sources generally available.  Is this correct?
I am pretty sure I would not be able to improve things but it would be
fun to have a look.

My polytechnic does not give me ftp or telnet.  I can get them by bribing
the friend of a friend.  Will this be necessary in order to download gnu
source files?  Worse, I have a B*rl*nd C compiler, not gCC or whatever.
Should I try to investigate g++ first?  If so, where do I start.

TIA
Bill