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Re: Some thoughts on Gnuchess

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From: Scott Coulter
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1990 17:38
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In article <35694@cci632.UUCP> tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer) writes:
>Let's be a bit realistic, eh?  The GNU people have enough to do without
>building executables for software to run on platforms that they don't
>support, such as PC's.  Now, how about someone else providing a PC
>executable via anonymous ftp from somewhere, and also posting the binary to
>comp.binaries.ibm.pc?
>
>Any takers on the PC front?
>-- 
>Thomas V. Frauenhofer	...!rutgers!rochester!kodak!swamps!!frau!tvf *or*
>...!uunet!atexnet!kodak!swamps!frau!tvf (tvf@frau, tvf@cci632)
>"What's a gourmand?  I'll tell you, he's a P-I-G pig!"
>                                       - Justin Wilson

There are a few of us who are (slowly, but surely) working on a PC-able version
of GNUchess 3.0.  If we get it to a usable point, please be assured that we
will announce it here, and put it in all the usual ftp sites, as well as
sending it to c.b.i.p.

The lack of progress so far is mainly due to me being a grad student with
research to do (I haven't yet rigged a way to get grad-level credit for a 
PC port of GNUChess).  So, your choices are (1) wait for me or someone else
to finish it; (2) feel free to work on it yourself.  Extra hands on the
project would be appreciated--my time is quite limited right now.

Cheers, and happy hacking,
Scott Coulter
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Scott D. Coulter        Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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From: scott@kong.gatech.edu (Scott Coulter)
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Subject: Re: Some thoughts on Gnuchess
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