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In <2r362t$rf1@panix.com> kelly@panix.com (Kelly Maloni) writes:

>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to write a brief description of GNU chess and I had a couple of
>questions? Is it a single-player, ascii chess program? I know you can use
>it in conjunction with XBoard to play another player over the ICS. But,
>GNU Chess, by itself, is a single player-only computer game, correct?

>XBoard *must* be used in conjunction with other chess software--GNU chess
>or the ICS--to play a game, correct?

>Ahh, one last question? Relative to other chess programs, how difficult is
>GNU Chess?

The way i see it: it is programmed great, it has very good searchroutines
and all things like nullmove alpha beta are implemented very good, so
it really would have been a topproduct, but a product is just as good as
its weakest point. With Gnuchess the only weak point is its evaluation of
a position: bad is just an understatement. That is the
reason it cannot beat strong humans or commercial programms.

>Any feedback would be great.
>
>--Kelly
>kelly@panix.com
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