🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's a new chess playing program.
To install it on UNIX systems
put it in a file called nochess.c
and type cc nochess.c

To run it just type
a.out

Here it is.

main()
{
   exit(1);
}

I'd appreciate it if people
would help fix any bugs they find
rather than just posting annoying
messages to the net.

Seriously, it seems to only require minimal
competence to make sure that things that are
released with higher version numbers and that are
purportedly better than previous versions
are in fact improvements. Having an alpha version
with problems on untested systems or in peculiar,
rarely encountered situations is understandable.
Releasing an obviously inferior, bug-riddled product
is idiocy.

Of course one feels much better announcing
a major new Gnu release than just posting "By
the way I've hacked on gnu chess 3.1 for a good
portion the last year, restructuring
some of it, slowing it down, making the hash table`
fill all available memory, and introducing many
new bugs. I feel I understand chess programs
much better now. If any one wants my
changes send me mail."

Until Project Gnu can correct Gnu Chess 4.0 style
mistakes Gnu software is not going to gain the
following it should. "Well it was free and you
have access to the source." doesn't compile low-grade,
toy code into reliable software.

Hope I haven't made any enemies for life.