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Article #5712Re: Nochess 4.0 [was Re: 3.1 vs. 4.0]
From: Tim Mann
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1992 03:53
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,2aad8db1e18c8e20 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-06-10 15:36:28 PST Newsgroups: gnu.chess Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!src.dec.com!src.dec.com!mann From: mann@src.dec.com (Tim Mann) Subject: Re: Nochess 4.0 [was Re: 3.1 vs. 4.0] Message-ID: <1992Jun11.035315.28104@src.dec.com> Sender: news@src.dec.com (News) Reply-To: mann@src.dec.com Organization: DEC Systems Research Center References: <9206100450.AA08053@rice-chex> <1992Jun10.224842.21498@bond> Distribution: gnu Date: Thu, 11 Jun 92 03:53:15 GMT Lines: 21