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Re: Nochess 4.0 [was Re: 3.1 vs. 4.0]

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 03:53
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Ouch!  Obviously you exaggerate to make a point.

From a position slightly closer to what was going on (I was a beta tester,
though not a developer), here's what I believe happened.

A small group of people have been working on gnuchess in their spare time for
quite a while.  They've made many improvements and fixed many bugs.  Their goal
was to release a new version as gnuchess 4.0 that would be much better than
3.1.  Unfortunately, due to a lack of communication within the group and
overeagerness to release the software by a certain date, a version got released
just after a couple of new bugs had been added.  These bugs obscured all the
progress that has been made since 3.1.

I think you can expect a much improved version before long---some of the
earlier versions I beta tested seemed quite good.  In the meantime you might
want to stick with 3.1.  If you like xboard, xboard 2.0 and gnuchess 3.1 work
pretty well together.

Perhaps Stuart will have more to say on this topic.

	--Tim
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Subject: Re: Nochess 4.0 [was Re: 3.1 vs. 4.0]
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